Location:
- Grid reference: SJ63230172
- x=363230
- y=301720
- 52°36'43"N; 2°32'35"W
- Civil Parish: Much Wenlock, Shropshire
Clinker manufacture operational: 1890-1910
Approximate total clinker production: 50,000 tonnes
Raw materials: Concretions in Silurian Limestone (Much Wenlock Limestone Formation: 427-428 Ma), from 363400,301900
Ownership: A. Boulton and Co.
Otherwise called Farley or Bradley Rock. This was primarily a lime plant, but according to Davis, made 80 t/week of Portland cement in, say, three dry process bottle kilns. In directories, they were only "cement manufacturers". The limestone contained substantial amounts of "ballstone" which consists of large concretions of uniform composition about that of Portland rawmix, embedded in a matrix of relatively high-grade limestone. It would appear that the latter was used to make lime, and the "ballstones" were burned as dug to produce a "natural cement". It may be that other lime plants in the area produced a similar product before WWI. It was on the GWR Wenlock branch railway which served the many lime plants in the area.
No rotary kilns were installed.
Sources:
- Primary Sources:
- directories
- Davis' map
- Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping
- BGS mapping and monographs
- Confirmatory Sources:
- nil