🏛️ Blaenavon Ironworks

United Kingdom · Europe · 51.78°N, 3.09°W

Blaenavon Ironworks, officially spelled Blaenafon Ironworks since 2024, is a former industrial site which is now a museum in Blaenavon, Wales. The ironworks was of crucial importance in the development of the ability to use cheap, low quality, high sulphur iron ores worldwide. It was the site of the experiments by Sidney Gilchrist Thomas and his cousin Percy Gilchrist that led to "the basic steel process" or "Gilchrist–Thomas process".

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Quick facts

Country	United Kingdom
Continent / region	Europe
Coordinates (approx.)	51.78°N, 3.09°W · view on map

Blaenavon Ironworks is located in United Kingdom, in Europe.

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