Bridge over Leighton Beck

Bridge over Leighton Beck
Bridge over Leighton Beck
Bridge over Leighton Beck
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Bridge over Leighton Beck
Milnthorpe
This is the bridge over Leighton Beck. Leighton Beck is a sizeable stream and not far from here Leighton Beck Furnace was opened c 1713 by the Backbarrow Iron Company. It was an ideal place with a stream suitable to build a dam for the water. As well as a plentiful supply of timber for the furnace, there was also peat available at Silverdale Moss.
The smelting furnace used water driven bellows. After local supplies of ore dried up, fresh supplies had to be shipped in, and came by sea from the Furness district and were landed at places on the Kent Estuary including the Cove at Silverdale. It was then transported by packhorse via Park Lane, which was originally called Mine Road, to Leighton. The furnace at Leighton lasted approximately a hundred years and closed in 1810.
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80mm x 80mm
1901
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