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Posted: 08 Sep 2013

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Rockley Furnace

Rockley Furnace
The Rockley blast furnace which stands in the woods near Rockley Abbey Farm, was built between 1698 and 1704 to smelt the local iron ore. It was worked until the 1740s by the Spencer syndicate of ironmasters of Cannon Hall, Cawthorne.

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 GrahamH
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Interesting to learn when these businesses worked. Was there coking coal locally? The first commercial blast furnace in Australia started in 1875, about 90 years after the English arrived.
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10 years ago.
tarboat club has replied to GrahamH club
There is coking coal locally, but this was built as a charcoal fuelled furnace. There is some slight evidence that it may have been used with coke for a short period during the Napoleonic wars, but in any case not for long.
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