Kinneil Iron Works
Location type
WorksName and dates
Kinneil Iron WorksServed by the Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway.
Description
This iron works had four blast furnaces and was owned by William Wilson and Co. The furnaces were charged on the south side, with a tramway running south and east to a number of ironstone and coal pits (Kinneil Tramway). On the north side were the pig iron, foundry and smithy sidings, connected to the Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway. Slag was deposited to the north, north west and north east on the foreshore. (The latter of these was a lagoon formed by the offshore embankment of the railway.)
The slag hill to the north west was later used for redd from the pits. Furnace Yard Pit was developed to the north of the blast furnaces.
Clearly the works was a major landmark. On Admiralty charts of the 1860s the iron works was marked 'Furnaces, very high chimney' and 'Kinneil Iron Works, very remarkable at night'.
The Furnace Rows, for the iron workers, were built to the east of the furnaces.
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Iron WorksExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
05/10/2022
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