| HER Number (PRN): | 00668 |
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| Name: | Calcutts Coke Tar Ovens |
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| Type of Record: | Monument |
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| Protected Status: | Conservation Area: Severn Gorge Part A, B and C - within Shropshire Council Unitary |
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Monument Type(s):
- COKE OVEN (Early 18th century to Early 20th century (pre-war) - 1700 AD to 1913 AD)
Summary
This site represents: a coke oven of 18th to 20th century date.
| Parish: | The Gorge, Telford and Wrekin |
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| Broseley, Bridgnorth, Shropshire |
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| Map Sheet: | SJ60SE |
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| Grid Reference: | SJ 6846 0297 |
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Related records
| 03818 | Related to: The Calcutts Ironworks (Monument) |
Associated Finds: None recorded
Associated Events
- ESA674 - 1975 field observation by the Ordnance Survey
- ESA6835 - 2001 management survey of the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage site
Description
At Calcutts on the S side of the river between 1780 and 1790 works were set up for the distillation of pit coal, coking the coal in large ovens (or kilns) and recovering the by-products .This replaced the earlier process of coking in mounds in the open <1a>
The site now has council houses on it <2>
Between 1784 and 1786 Dundonald built 12 kilns or stoves for the manufacture of coke and tar adjacent to Calcutts ironworks. (SA 3818)…Eight further kilns were constructed .. Before 1800. ..Pitch and a type of oil used for japanning were also produced. ..The kilns at the Calcutts were operated as part of the adjacent ironworks which drew its coke supplies from them. The process used is described <3>
Correspondance concerning the erection of a bungalow on this site. <4>
The tar ovens at the Calcutts were built by the 19th Earl Dundonald. <5>
Shown 1830 map, as a row of "twenty tar kilns with condensive registers, still house, etc" and now beneath 1-5 Calcutts Road. <6>
Sources
| [00] | SSA20722 - Card index: Shropshire County Council SMR. Site and Monuments Record (SMR) cards. SMR record cards. SMR Card for PRN SA 00668. |
| [01a] | SSA2637 - Volume: Anon. 1923. Transactions of the Newcomen Society. Transactions of the Newcomen Society. Vol 4. p106. |
| [01] | SSA2638 - Card index: Ordnance Survey. 1975. Ordnance Survey Record Card SJ60SE19 . Ordnance Survey record cards. SJ60SE19 . |
| [02] | SSA2639 - VERBAL COMMUNICATION: Trinder Barrie. 1978/ 1980. Comment, 02/06/1980. |
| [03] | SSA1475 - Monograph: Trinder Barrie. 1973. The Industrial Revolution in Shropshire. p55-58, fig 6. |
| [04] | SSA2636 - Correspondence: Various. 1984/ 1985. Correspondence, 1984-1985. |
| [05] | SSA24249 - Management report: Unknown. 2001. Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site. Appendix 3 - 6.1. |
| [06] | SSA22190 - Deskbased survey report: Clark C & Alfrey Judith. 1988. Jackfield and Broseley: Nuffield Survey, Fourth Interim Report. p109. |
| Date Last Edited: | Oct 23 2019 3:38PM |
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