Location:
- Grid reference: ST3007137177
- x=330071
- y=137177
- 51°7'46"N; 3°00'2"W
- Civil Parish: Bridgwater Within, Somerset
Clinker manufacture operational: 1900-1906
Approximate total clinker production: 12,000 tonnes
Raw materials: Blue Lias Limestone (Blue Lias Formation: 190-200 Ma) from ?
Ownership:
- 1900-1906 Wilkinson and Leng Ltd
- 1906 Bridgwater Portland Cement Co. Ltd
Whether this builders’ merchant made Portland cement is very questionable: it is attested only by Francis, based on his information from E. J. B. Akerman. There might have been two dry process bottle kilns to make the declared output of 60 t/week. Maps and aerial photography show nothing like that at the assumed location.
Please contact me with any relevant information or corrections.
No rotary kilns were installed.
Sources::
- Primary Sources:
- Francis, p 179
- Ordnance Survey 1:500 mapping
- Confirmatory Sources:
- Nil