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Godfrey Maps of Sheffield 1901 - 1905 Index of names dwellings S-Z,


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Slitting Mill Cottage

Slitting Mill lane

Sheet 295.01 Attercliffe 1903

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Slitting Mill Cottage, Slitting Mill lane, Sheet 295.01 Attercliffe 1903

This cottage stands on the site of one of the oldest recorded iron works in Sheffield. The slitting (ie rolling) mill was originally a 'finery' and forge where pig iron from the Shrewsbury blast furnaces at Wadsley and Kimberworth was processed into malleable iron in the 16th. century. Known as the Upper Forge or Hammer, it was one of two powered by water taken from the Don at Sanderson's weir. The Shrewsbury estate accounts record that 89 tons of iron were produced here at the 'Upper Hammer' in 1587.

Detail from Fairbank's 1795 map of Sheffield.

The forge was converted to a slitting mill in the 1740s but by 1819 industrial activity seems to have ceased and at some time thereafter the goit was filled in and the site became a farm. The buildings shown on the 1905 map are probably the remnants of Slitting Mill Farm occupied in 1876 by George Darwin and possibly twenty years earlier by Benjamin Seaman.

In the twentieth century the site was reunited with its industrial past, built over by the Industrial Steels Company on Stevenson road.

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