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Augill Foundry, Augill
Augill Foundry
locality:-   Augill
civil parish:-   Stainmore (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   foundry
locality type:-   lead foundry (?) 
coordinates:-   NY81591466
1Km square:-   NY8114
10Km square:-   NY81


photograph
CFN06.jpg (taken 23.9.2016)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 16 16) 
placename:-  Augill Foundry
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

:-  
Smelt mill, erected 1846

Marshall, J D &Davies-Shiel, Michael: 1977 (2nd edn): Industrial Archaeology of the Lake Counties: Moon, Michael (Beckermet, Cumbria):: ISBN 0 904131 13 0

notes:-  
Or, a lead smelter according to a local resident: 2016.

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