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Baptist Mills, Bristol

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Baptist Mills is so named from the mills that once stood there. A grist (flour) mill is recorded in this area in a document written in 1470, and again in 1610, when they are marked on Chester and Master's Map of Kingswood.
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Brass production at the Baptist Mills Brass Works ceased in 1814, and in 1839 parts of the former brass works were acquired Joseph and James White, who established a factory manufacturing "Egyptian Black" pottery,
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with a capital of £8000. While there, Darby recruited skilled 'Dutchmen' to operate a brass battery with trip hammers. He may also have recruited men skilled in sand
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as opposed to the loam moulding hitherto used in England. Darby was the active partner in the business, but later withdrew to concentrate on his new
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and clay tobacco pipes. By 1861 the business was known as the Phoenix Pottery. The pottery closed at some point after 1891.
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was constructed in the early 1970s. However, slag blocks made from waste from the works can be found in the area.
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Cox, Nancy (1990). "Imagination and innovation of an industrial pioneer: The first Abraham Darby".
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The last remains of the brass works were destroyed when Junction 3 of the
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Redcliffe Sandstone, which is overlain by superficial deposits of
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The following suburbs are in the same urban area, but lie in
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Forests and Chases of England and Wales c. 1000 to c. 1850
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Non-ferrous metallurgical works in the United Kingdom
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Bristol Brass Company
Bristol
Triassic
Quaternary
alluvium
River Frome
brass mills
Abraham Darby
joint stock company
moulding
ironfounding
Coalbrookdale
Rockingham teapots
M32 Motorway
"Geology of Britain Viewer"
the original
"Chester and Master's 1610 Map of Kingswood"
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10.1179/iar.1990.12.2.127
"J. and J. White's, Baptist Mills Pottery, Bristol – 1840 to 1891"
"Baptist Mills"
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Subdivisions of Bristol
Parliament constituencies
Bristol Central
Bristol East
Bristol North East
Bristol North West

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