Furnaces at Morley Park Iron Works, Ripley, Derbyshire
A pair of iron smelting blast furnaces that used coke (coal) as fuel. The one on the right dates from 1780 and was the first coke fuelled iron furnace in Derbyshire. The other dates from 1818.They were built for Francis Hurt. They went out of use in 1874 and were restored in 1986. They are the last remains of the once important cast iron industry in Derbyshire.
