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The Coke ovens at the southern end of Furnace Road is a scheduled ancient monument comprising the substantial remains of industrial ironworking infrastructure located in Cumberland. Dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the site represents the development of coke-fired iron production during the Industrial Revolution, a technological advance that displaced charcoal-based smelting methods. The surviving physical remains consist of the structural evidence of multiple oven structures typical of the period's iron manufacturing processes. The monument documents an important phase in Britain's industrial heritage and the transition to coal-based metallurgical production in the northwest of England.
Coke ovens at the southern end of Furnace Road is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019211. View the official record →
The Coke ovens at the southern end of Furnace Road is a scheduled ancient monument comprising the substantial remains of industrial ironworking infrastructure located in Cumberland.
Coke ovens at the southern end of Furnace Road 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 1019211.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Castle Hill motte and site of a World War II gun emplacement (0.2 km), 18th century bottle works on Irish Street, 200m north of Mote Hill (0.3 km), Medieval site in Netherhall Park, left bank of River Ellen (0.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Coke ovens at the southern end of Furnace Road's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Coke ovens at the southern end of Furnace Road 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.