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Darkhill Ironworks
51.7763° N, -2.5954° E
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Darkhill Ironworks, and the neighbouring Titanic Steelworks, are internationally important industrial remains associated with the development of the iron and steel industries in the 19th century. Both are scheduled monuments. They are located on the edge of a small hamlet called Gorsty Knoll, just to the west of Parkend, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. Historically, Darkhill was sometimes written Dark Hill.
Historical Timeline
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Attempted sale and partnership breakdown
July–September 1847
David Mushet moves to Forest of Dean
February 1810
Experimental furnace constructed
1818–1819
Forest Steel Works opened
1848
Bessemer improvement
1856
Steel rails produced
1857
Titanic Steelworks opens
October 1862
Darkhill sold to Samuel Morgan
1864
R Mushet's Special Steel invented
1868
Agreement with Samuel Osborn and closure
1870–1871
Titanic company wound up and railway ownership
1874
Buildings demolished for Severn Bridge construction
1960s
Darkhill returned to Crown ownership
1981
Site scheduled as monuments
November 2002
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