Rosedale Abbey
Rosedale Abbey is a village in North Yorkshire . Located in the middle of the North York Moors in a particularly inaccessible valley, it is the only large gathering of people in the central part of the moor. In the Rosedale valley there was a Cistercian monastery between 1158 and 1536 , the ruins of which are still there today.
A village did not emerge until the middle of the 19th century, when the Rosedale became an important mining and processing site for iron ore in just a few years. The boom started in 1861 when the North Eastern Railway laid a branch line to Rosedale so that the iron ore could be transported in large quantities on to Teesside for smelting . In a few years the population rose from 548 in 1851 to 2,839 in 1871. The calcination took place on site in large kilns.
The boom lasted until supplies were exhausted in 1920. Remnants of the Rosedale Railway are still there, as are the remains of large kilns from that time.
Remarks
- ^ A b Marilyn Palmer, Peter Neaverson: Industrial archeology: principles and practice Routledge, 1998 ISBN 0415167698 p. 53
- ^ Marilyn Palmer, RN, Palmer Neaverson Staff: Industry Landscape 1700-1900 Routledge, 1994 ISBN 0203217845 p. 87
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Coordinates: 54 ° 21 ′ 15 ″ N , 0 ° 53 ′ 15 ″ W.