Jenny Brown's Point

Jenny Brown's Point
Jenny Brown's Point
Jenny Brown's Point
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Jenny Brown's Point
Silverdale
This chimney at Jenny Browns Point has often been described as being part of a limekiln. It has also been described as the remains of an old copper-smelting mill.
The works were supposedly established in the early 1790s at the start of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Copper was in great demand to mix with other metals to make bronze for cannon balls and the like. Copper was mined at Heald Brow and Crag Foot.
There was once a quay here, and goods would be shipped in and out by sea when the deep-water channel was closer to the shore. Another theory based on a description in Wests Antiquities of Furness describing it as a beacon, suggests it could have been used as a beacon for coastal shipping, perhaps bringing material to Leighton Furnace.
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80mm x 80mm
1901
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