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
Ownership: Clitheroe Portland Cement Co. (initially owned by William Rowe and Co.)
Not to be confused with the Ribblesdale or Isis plants. This was formed as a sideline of the Bellmanpark Lime Works. It had a single, dry-process bottle kiln. There is no reason to suppose it ever varied 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. Making what was essentially a “natural” cement, 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
- 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