Wilsontown Iron Works
Location type
WorksName 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 worksExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS 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
| / /1804 | Wilsontown 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 |
