Hamsterley Colliery Derwentcote Steel Furnace (the Cone)
Heritage · Chopwell

Hamsterley Colliery Derwentcote Steel Furnace (the Cone)

Heritage

Type

Chopwell

Where

Heritage · listed-building

Good for

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Cost

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Opening times

Open access — check locally for facilities

Location

Chopwell

Parent hack

Arrive at opening time in school holidays — you'll beat the queues and the car park.

Derwentcote Steel Furnace, Rowlands Gill, near Newcastle upon Tyne, England, built in 1720, is an example of an early cementation furnace which produced high-grade steel. A Grade I listed building, it is part of an industrial and mining site that has been protected as a scheduled monument.

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