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DUD DUDLEY
1619		 YARRANTON'S
Map 1660		 PHILIP FOLEY
1668		 KNIGHTS

YATES MAP-1775

OTHER WORKS
shown by Yates		 RIVER

OS ref

CURRENT USE
  Wildon Wildon Forge Wilden Forge

w

  Stour

825.726

Still in Industrial use, Balwin Industrial Estate
  Whittington Forge Whittington Forge Whittington Forge

*

  Stour

853.825

Private residence
(Greenes Forge)

 

Greenes Forge  

*

  Smestow

862.888

Farm
(Swin - Forge)

 

Swindon Forge  

*

  Smestow

862.907

Baldwin Housing Estate
(Heath Forge)

 

Heath Forge  

*

  Wom-Brook

874.901

Wall Heath Forge
 

 

Grange Furnace  

*

  Smestow

845.965

Furnace Grange - Farm
 

 

Brewood Forge  

*

  -

-

x
 

 

Cosen Forge  

x

  -

-

x
 

 

Wombridge Furnace  

x

  -

-

x
 

 

Bromich Forge  

x

  -

-

x
 

 

Wedgbury Forge (Wednesbury)

 

x

  -

-

x Possibly around Foley Street
 

 

Asson Forge Asson Forge

x

  -

-

x Forge lane off Chester Road
 

 

Bustleholme Rod Mill  

x

  -

-

x Near M5/M6 Junction
Cradly Forge   Cradely Forge  

*

  Stour

935.856

Site now storm tanks
Cradley Furnace   & Mill  

*

  Stour

931.852

No remains
 

 

Hales Furnace Hales Furnace

*

  Stour

967.845

No remains
 

 

Hubbals Mill Forge  

x

   

-

x
 

 

Hyde Rod Mill Hyde Rod Mill

*

  Stour

851.843

Some remains.
 

 

Bewdley Storehouse Bewdley Storehouse

w

  Severn

-

All dock area Warehouses demolished
 

 

Shelsley Forge  

w

  Teme

-

x
  Wolverley Forge Wolverley Forge Wolverley Forge

w

  Stour

835.795

Private residence
  & Lower Forge & Lower Forge & Lower Forge

w

  Stour

828.788

Private residence
Gornal Wood Furnace

 

 

 

*

Gornal Wood  

903.905

Probable site
 

 

(Halfcot Mill)  

*

  Stour

867.858

Possible trace
 

 

(Prestwood Wire Works)  

*

  Stour

868.862

Possible trace
  Cookley Forge Cookley Forge Cookley Forge

w

  Stour

841.807

Site still an iron-works
  & Slitting mill & Slitting mill & Slitting mill

w

  Stour

842.807

no apparent trace
 

 

Willey Furnace Willey Furnace

s

   

-

 

  Stourton Forge

 

 

*

  Stour

859.849

Weir from works remains
  Stourbridge Forge

 

 

*

  Stour

903.847

Still an Iron-works

 

 

 

 

 

Stourbridge Iron Works Stour

895.848

Bradley’s still in use

 

 

 

 

 

Troyal Forge Stour

945.853

Corngearves trading Estate

NOTES

Yates Map of Staffordshire

 

 

*

Lie Forge (Lye) Stour

922.848

Lye Forge still in use

*

Shown on Map

 

 

*

Congreve Forge Stour

952.847

Belle Vale Forge, still in use.

s

Shropshire

 

 

*

Gothersley Smestow

863.868

Some remains

w

Worcestershire

 

 

*

Kinfare (Kinver) Stour

848.833

Housing Estate

x

not in the Stour Valley area

 

 

*

Forge (Stambermill) Stour

915.847

No remains
 

 

 

Mitton Upper

w

  Stour

822.716

Textile Mill
 

 

 

& Lower Forges

w

  Stour

817.714

Small Industrial Estate

All Philip Foley's Iron Works in 1668 are included to show their extent, this is prior to his Iron Works in partnership with his brother. Spellings differ and reflect those used in original documents..

A brief Chronology
1622
Mayday floods sweep away Dud Dudley's Cradley Ironworks		 1665
Dud Dudley’s Metallum Martis		 James 1
b 1566 succ 1603 d 1625
1642-51 The Civil Wars. Dud Dudley - Royalist Colonel
Andrew Yarranton - Parliamentarian Captain. Thomas Foley invited to be an M.P. in General Monk's Convention Parliament of 1660		 1690-95
Thomas Newcomen purchasing Iron from the Foley’s		 Charles 1
b 1600 succ 1625 d 1649
1658-9
Sea-cole Iron used at Phillip Foley's Bromich & Wedgebury Iron Works, 
2 Boats purchased for his Greensforge works.		 1712
Newcomen’s Dudley Castle Engine		 Charles II
b 1630 succ 1649 & 60 
d 1685
1661-65
Yarranton’s Stour Navigation		 1775
Yates Map of Staffordshire		 James II
b 1633 succ 1685 d 1701