Wilsontown Iron Works

Location type

Works

Name and dates

Wilsontown Iron Works (1779-1842)

, Scotland
Served by the Wilsontown Iron Works Waggonway.

Description

This iron works was built over the Mouse Water, the stream running under the works in a culvert, to the north of the village of Forth at a location formerly known as Forkens. It was the first iron works in Lanarkshire.

Tags

Iron works

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
10/02/2020


Nearby stations
Wilsontown
Haywood
Auchengray
Fauldhouse and Crofthead
Breich
Headlesscross
Fauldhouse
Longridge [1st]
Longridge [2nd]
Cobbinshaw [2nd]
Blackhall
Bents
Cobbinshaw [1st]
Carnwath
Addiewell
Ormiston Siding
Shaft
Shaft
Ironstone pits
Wilsontown Colliery Pit No 9
Wilsontown Colliery Pit No 3
Cleuch Colliery
Haywood Colliery Pit No 4
Coal Pit
Lawhead Siding
Lawhead Junction
Haywood Colliery Pit No 10
Climpy Colliery Junction
Pool Junction
Tourist/other
Lower Haywood Signal Box
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Chronology Dates

  /  /1804Wilsontown Iron Works Waggonway
Opened from Climpy collieries to Wilsontown Iron Works by John Wilson.

Books


Old Forth: With Wilsontown, Climpy, Braehead, Haywood, Auchengray, Woolfords and Tarbrax