Calcutts Ironworks

[2] By 1786, when the operators were Baille, Pocock and Co., the site had two blast furnaces, which could each produce 40 tons of iron a week, air furnaces, two bar iron forges and three steam engines.

[2] In that year the lease was bought by Alexander Brodie, a Scottish blacksmith from London.

He closed the forge; in the foundry he produced mainly a ship's stove (his patent design) and cannon.

This was the period of the Napoleonic Wars; the site was visited by William V, Prince of Orange during a tour of Shropshire.

About 1817 the works was leased by William Hazledine, and he produced iron unprofitably for a few years.