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Pippingford furnace and ironworks is a scheduled ancient monument comprising the remains of an iron production complex located near New Lodge Farm in Sussex. The site dates from the early modern period, representing the industrial exploitation of the Wealden iron ore deposits that made Sussex a major centre of iron manufacture from the sixteenth century onwards. The monument preserves evidence of the furnace structure and associated working areas that would have processed locally mined ore into iron for domestic and military use. The remains survive as earthworks and structural fragments that contribute to our understanding of Wealden iron industry technology and organisation during this period of significant English industrial development.
Pippingford furnace and ironworks, 885m south-west of New Lodge Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002223. View the official record →
Pippingford furnace and ironworks is a scheduled ancient monument comprising the remains of an iron production complex located near New Lodge Farm in Sussex.
Pippingford furnace and ironworks, 885m south-west of New Lodge Farm 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 1002223.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Romano-British bloomery in Pippingford Park, 775m north-east of Pippingford House (0.5 km), Pillow mounds on Ashdown Forest (0.6 km), Bowl barrow 300m east of Tile Lodge (1.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Pippingford furnace and ironworks, 885m south-west of New Lodge Farm'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.
Pippingford furnace and ironworks, 885m south-west of New Lodge Farm stands on Wealden Group, bedrock that formed in the Barremian. The rock here is sandstone and siltstone, interbedded.