Location:
- Grid reference: SD75894332
- x=375890
- y=443320
- 53°53'8"N; 2°22'0"W
- Civil Parish: Clitheroe, Lancashire
Clinker manufacture operational: 1879-1921
Approximate total clinker production: 25,000 tonnes
Raw materials: Argillaceous Carboniferous Limestone (Clitheroe Limestone Formation: 346-348 Ma) from quarry at 376150,442870, and a clay pit on site.
Ownership: Clitheroe Portland Cement Co. Initially owned by William Rowe and Co.; a company was formed in 1892, taken over by Carter & Sons Ltd in 1902.
Not to be confused with the Ribblesdale or Isis plants. This was formed as a sideline of the Bellmanpark Lime Works. William Rowe became a "cement maker" in 1879, but it is unclear whether the product was Portland. It had a single, dry-process bottle kiln. It was up for sale in 1889, with a declared kiln capacity of 25 t/week. There is no reason to suppose it ever varied much from Davis’ 1907 capacity of 20 t/week . The plant had good rail links associated with the large lime plant, but it is doubtful whether its product travelled far outside the Ribblesdale area. The plant faded away as marketing of modern cements penetrated the area. A bank of four of the lime kilns still exists but the cement kiln has gone: the site is now waste ground with a few foundations showing.
Power supply
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Rawmills
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No rotary kilns were installed.
Sources::
- Primary Sources:
- Davis 1907 list
- Newspaper articles
- Francis, pp 221-222
- Peter del Strother, History of Ribblesdale Cement, Castle Cement Ltd, 2008, ISBN 978-0-9545416-1-3, pp 30-31
- Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping
- BGS mapping and monographs
- Confirmatory Sources:
- Jackson, p 276