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Solway Iron Works |
| locality:- |
Maryport |
| civil parish:- |
Maryport (formerly Cumberland) |
| county:- |
Cumbria |
| locality type:- |
ironworks |
| locality type:- |
blast furnace |
| coordinates:- |
NY02903559 (about) |
| 1Km square:- |
NY0235 |
| 10Km square:- |
NY03 |
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notes:-
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Marked on OS Popular Edition one inch map, sheet 8
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Identification of this site as Solway Iron Works is tentative; it might be the other
19th century ironworks.
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notes:-
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Incorporated about 1870, Isaac Armstrong and others, the Solway Hematite Iron Co.
The first two blast furnaces were lit January 1871. Fueled by coke; steam powered
blowing. Production had its ups and downs. One of the furnaces once produced a record
amount, 804 tons of pig iron in a week. Ceased 1927; demolished 1939.
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Lancaster and Wattleworth 1977
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