Bedlington Iron Works
Location type
WorksName and dates
Bedlington Iron Works (1736-1867)Served by the Bedlington Iron Company.
Description
This iron works was on the north bank of the River Blyth, to the south of Bedlington, at Blyth Dene. There were iron pits nearby.
The works was connected by a waggonway to coal mines, a system running north to Bedlington and then west to the mines. There was a coal staith on the River Blyth.
The works provided rails for railways in the 1820s, including the Stockton and Darlington Railway, Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway and [Dundee and Newtyle Railway]]. John Birkenshaw was granted a patent for rolled wrought iron rails in 1820.
Part of the private line was incorporated into the Blyth and Tyne Railway's Morpeth Branch (Blyth and Tyne Railway) in 1857/8.
The works closed in 1867. Little remains today
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Iron Works12/12/2020
| Nearby stations Bebside Bedlington Choppington Newsham Blyth [2nd] Blyth [1st] North Seaton Cramlington Plessey Halt Ashington Hepscott Stannington Ashington [Private] Hartley [2nd] Hartley [1st] | Bedlington Viaduct Furnaceway Sidings Horton Grange Colliery Bedlington ^A^ Colliery Bedlington ^D^ Colliery Barrington Colliery New Delaval Colliery West Sleekburn Junction Isabella Pit North Blyth Power Station Hartford Colliery North Blyth Power Station Bates Colliery West Sleekburn Colliery Tourist/other Bedlington Staith |
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