Aston Botterell. Shropshire - Charlcotte Furnace - postcard c.1980s

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• Picture / Image:  Charlcotte Furness, Shropshire [in Aston Botterell]
• Publisher: Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
• Postally used: no
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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The Charlcotte furnace is one of the best-preserved charcoal furnaces in England. The furnace was owned by Richard Knight, one of the chief ironmasters in the 18th century West Midlands; Knight employed it to produce pig iron for his Bringewood Ironworks, located in north Herefordshire. The furnace was fed by iron ore mined on the Brown and Titterstone Clee Hills. On average it produced 400 tonnes of iron each year; however the pattern of its output varied greatly over its lifespan. The furnace was closed in 1779 due to competition from coke-fired blast furnaces, where the problems of producing a form of pig iron suitable for conversion into wrought iron had been solved: another contributing factor was the high price of charcoal locally.^[14]