Posted on 21st September 2015 / 1018
Site Type : Industrial Heritage Sites / Relic
Category : Metallurgy / Forge / Metallurgy / Iron and Steel - other / Metallurgy / Metallurgy / Rolling Mill / Water Wheel
Location : England / Yorkshire / England / Yorkshire / South Yorkshire / England
Industry Type : Iron and Steel
Power Type : Water
Public or Private Site? : Private Land
Condition : Ruins and Remnants

Now merely a few remnants, what’s left of this site is on private land and only viewable with the landowners’ permission.

Never fear though, it worked in conjunction with the well-preserved Wortley Top Forge – which is very accessible to visitors!

It was probably initially installed around 1641. By around 1835 puddling furnaces were built, so that  pig iron bought in from elsewhere could be converted into wrought iron and hammered into bars.

All that is left today apparently is the the old water-powered hammer.

You can read a description of the Low Forge in 1900 HERE!

 

Wortley Low Forge

Now merely a few remnants, what’s left of this site is on private land and only viewable with the landowners’ permission.

Never fear though, it worked in conjunction with the well-preserved Wortley Top Forge – which is very accessible to visitors!

It was probably initially installed around 1641. By around 1835 puddling furnaces were built, so that  pig iron bought in from elsewhere could be converted into wrought iron and hammered into bars.

All that is left today apparently is the the old water-powered hammer.

You can read a description of the Low Forge in 1900 HERE!

 

Wortley Low Forge
Site Type : Industrial Heritage Sites / Relic
Category : Metallurgy / Forge / Metallurgy / Iron and Steel - other / Metallurgy / Metallurgy / Rolling Mill / Water Wheel
Location : England / Yorkshire / England / Yorkshire / South Yorkshire / England
Industry Type : Iron and Steel
Power Type : Water
Public or Private Site? : Private Land
Condition : Ruins and Remnants
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