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Tuesday, 13 March 2018

Rockley Bast Furnace As It Was.

After my post yesterday about my walk through Rockley wood and pictures of the old furnace and engine house I was keen to learn more about this 300 year old site and came upon this great video showing the site today and how it was when it was smelting iron ore.

Definitely one for the history geeks, like myself!


Hope you enjoyed the video as much as I did and a great thanks to GooseyGoo for their excellent article, and video about this site.

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