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Butterley Works is a complex of industrial monuments in Derbyshire comprising blast furnaces, a canal tunnel, and underground wharf facilities dating from the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The works represent significant developments in iron production and canal engineering during the Industrial Revolution, with the blast furnaces being among the notable iron-making installations of the period. The integration of canal transport infrastructure, including the tunnel and wharf, demonstrates the logistical innovations required to serve large-scale iron foundries of the era. The surviving structures are important evidence of the technological and commercial systems that sustained Britain's industrial expansion during this period.
Butterley Works blast furnaces, canal tunnel and underground wharf is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1404832. View the official record →
Butterley Works is a complex of industrial monuments in Derbyshire comprising blast furnaces, a canal tunnel, and underground wharf facilities dating from the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1404832.
Butterley Works blast furnaces, canal tunnel and underground wharf 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 1404832.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Castle Hill camp (3 km), Morley Park Works (3.2 km), Codnor Castle (3.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Butterley Works blast furnaces, canal tunnel and underground wharf'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.
Butterley Works blast furnaces, canal tunnel and underground wharf 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.