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Blists Hill Iron Furnaces is a site of industrial archaeology located in Shropshire, comprising remains of iron-smelting furnaces that date to the eighteenth century. The furnaces represent an important phase in the development of iron production during the early Industrial Revolution, when Shropshire was a major centre of iron manufacturing. The site preserves evidence of the technological and organisational structures required for large-scale iron smelting in this period. The furnaces remain substantially visible as archaeological monuments, demonstrating the scale and sophistication of ironworking operations in the region during the later Georgian era.
Blists Hill Iron Furnaces is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006233. View the official record →
Blists Hill Iron Furnaces is a site of industrial archaeology located in Shropshire, comprising remains of iron-smelting furnaces that date to the eighteenth century. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1006233.
Blists Hill Iron Furnaces is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1006233.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Lilleshall Beam Blowing Engines (0.1 km), Coalport Inclined Plane (0.7 km), Coalport Bridge (1.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Blists Hill Iron Furnaces's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Blists Hill Iron Furnaces stands on Warwickshire Group, bedrock that formed in the Early Permian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.