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A PAPER of considerable interest on this subject was recently read before the New-comen Society (formed two years ago for the study of the history of engineering and technology) by Mr. Rhys Jenkins. He pointed out that although the industry in Sussex has been extinct for a hundred years, the district is historically one of great importance, for it was here that the blastfurnace was first used in England, and afterwards spread to what are now the chief iron-making districts in the Midlands, the North, and South Wales. Although it is customary to speak of the district as Sussex, it embraces parts of Kent, Surrey, and Hampshire; in fact, it is the Weald between the North and South Downs.., Sites of old iron works exist from a little beyond Haslemere on the west to Sissinghurst on the east.
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The Rise and Development of the Sussex Iron Industry. Nature 107, 240–241 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107240a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107240a0