Accounts of iron production at Cannock Wood and Teddesley Ironworks

Accounts of iron production at Cannock Wood and Teddesley Ironworks

Accounts of iron production at Cannock Wood and Teddesley Ironworks, 1580

SRO D(W)1734/ 3/3/213
©Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive Service

Iron production in Cannock Wood was begun by Sir William Paget in 1561. Two ironmills were working on the Chase by 1563 and by 1568 had been further extended.

This extract shows the amount of iron made at the “old forge” at Cannock Wood, as well as the wages paid to various named ironworkers. The whole document records the entire process of making iron from digging out coal for the furnaces and the carriage of ironstone from Walsall and Rushall to its production at the old and new furnaces at Cannock Wood.

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