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Low Mill furnace is a blast furnace located in Yorkshire, dating from the eighteenth century. The structure represents an important surviving example of early industrial ironworking infrastructure from the period when Britain's iron production was expanding rapidly. The furnace itself comprises a stone-built stack and associated casting house, typical of the technological and architectural arrangements of mid-eighteenth-century ironworks. As a scheduled monument, Low Mill furnace preserves evidence of the region's significant role in the development of iron manufacture during the early phases of industrialisation.
Low Mill furnace is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004793. View the official record →
Low Mill furnace is a blast furnace located in Yorkshire, dating from the eighteenth century. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004793.
Low Mill furnace 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 1004793.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Silkstone 17th century glassworks and 18th century pottery, 180m east of All Saints Church (1 km), Anglo-Saxon period cross in churchyard of All Saints (1.6 km), Rockley engine house (6.2 km).
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Low Mill furnace stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.