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Bersham Ironworks is a post-medieval and early modern industrial iron-casting facility located in Denbighshire, Wales, which operated as a significant centre of iron production from the eighteenth century onwards. The works were established to exploit local coal and iron ore deposits, becoming an important component of north Wales's industrial economy during the period of rapid expansion in metal manufacturing. The site retains substantial remains of blast furnaces, casting pits, and associated industrial structures that exemplify the technological and spatial arrangements characteristic of period ironworks. Bersham was eventually superseded by larger industrial concerns, though its physical fabric preserves evidence of the metallurgical techniques and workforce organisation that underpinned eighteenth and nineteenth-century Welsh iron production.
Bersham Ironworks is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference DE189. View the official record →
Bersham Ironworks is a post-medieval and early modern industrial iron-casting facility located in Denbighshire, Wales, which operated as a significant centre of iron production from the eighteenth century onwards. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference DE189.
Bersham Ironworks dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a ironworks. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Bersham Ironworks is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is DE189.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Offa's Dyke: Section SW from Tatham Bridge (5.8 km), Wynnstay Colliery Walker Fan House (6.1 km), Wynnstay Colliery Winding Engine House (6.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Bersham Ironworks's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Bersham Ironworks stands on Pennine Middle Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Middle Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.