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Brymbo Lead Smelting Works is a post-medieval and modern industrial building located in Wales and protected by Cadw (reference DE233). The works occupy land underlain by the Pennine Middle Coal Measures and South Wales Middle Coal Measures Formation, a geological sequence laid down during the Moscovian period. The bedrock comprises mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal seams, ironstone and ferricrete—deposits that made this region economically significant during the industrial era. The smelting works represents a phase of Welsh industrial development when lead processing formed part of the broader extractive industries exploiting the coal and mineral resources of the area. The survival of these structures reflects the importance of non-ferrous metal processing to the Welsh economy during the post-medieval period and into modern times.
Brymbo Lead Smelting Works is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference DE233. View the official record →
Brymbo Lead Smelting Works is a post-medieval and modern industrial building located in Wales and protected by Cadw (reference DE233).
Brymbo Lead Smelting Works dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a industrial building. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Brymbo Lead Smelting Works 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 DE233.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Offa's Dyke: Sections N & S of Bryn yr Owen Colliery (6.9 km), Offa's Dyke: Section S of Aberderfyn Road (7.4 km), Wat's Dyke: Section extending from Middle Sontley to Black Brook Bridge (8.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Brymbo Lead Smelting Works'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.
Brymbo Lead Smelting Works 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.