Qualla: Bringewood Ironworks https://qualla.com/bringewood-ironworks en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Bringewood Ironworks https://qualla.com/bringewood-ironworks Bringewood Ironworks: Introduction https://qualla.com/bringewood-ironworks/ The River Teme winds through woodland on the Herefordshire-Shropshire border, and somewhere along it - now mostly hidden by trees - sat a blast furnace, a finery forge, and a rolling mill. Bringewood Ironworks made iron from the 1590s until shortly after the Napoleonic Wars, two centuries during which it was one of the most respected charcoal ironworks in the West Midlands. The bar iron made here had a reputation for being tough. The story of who made it, and how, is partly the story of the early Industrial Revolution and partly the story of one extraordinarily entangled family.

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/1/bringewood-ironworks-wp/gcq1-bringewood-ironworks-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bringewood Ironworks: Built for a Royal Favourite https://qualla.com/bringewood-ironworks/ The works was probably built in the 1590s for Robert Dudley, the 1st Earl of Leicester - Queen Elizabeth I's favourite courtier and intermittent suitor - who held lands across the Welsh Marches. When Dudley's lineage came to a complicated legal end, the works reverted to the Crow...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/1/bringewood-ironworks-wp/gcq1-bringewood-ironworks-the-knights-of-bringewood.mp3 0:06 3 full Bringewood Ironworks: The Scholars Who Did Not Want to Run an Ironworks https://qualla.com/bringewood-ironworks/ Richard Knight had other sons whose descendants would shape English culture in ways that had nothing to do with iron. His son Thomas Knight, born 1697, was the father of two men who became famous in different worlds: Richard Payne Knight, the politician, antiquarian and writer on...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/1/bringewood-ironworks-wp/gcq1-bringewood-ironworks-the-scholars-who-did-not-want-to-run-an-ironworks.mp3 0:06 4 full Bringewood Ironworks: Charcoal and the Clee Hills https://qualla.com/bringewood-ironworks/ Bringewood was a charcoal ironworks at a time when most of the industry was already moving to coke. The wood for charcoal came from the nearby chases - Bringewood, Mocktree, and Darvel - cut on rotation, then converted to charcoal by colliers working in the woods. The iron ore pr...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/1/bringewood-ironworks-wp/gcq1-bringewood-ironworks-charcoal-and-the-clee-hills.mp3 0:06 5 full Bringewood Ironworks: The End and What Remains https://qualla.com/bringewood-ironworks/ The works was put back into repair in 1782 under William Downing of Pembridge and a sequence of partners ending with Samuel George. The 1782 lease expired in 1815, just as the iron industry was hit by the post-Napoleonic depression. By then the furnace had probably been cold for ...

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