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and has been the subject of archaeological and archival investigations. It is now believed that the chimney is most likely to be the remains of a short-lived copper mining and smelting project set up by Robert Gibson in the 1780s. He was Lord of the Manor of Yealand and incorrectly assumed he had the
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The identity of Jenny Brown is uncertain, though a daughter Jennet was born in 1628 to Robert Walling of Dikehouse, the farm at the point, and married Robert Brown (or Browen or Browne); one of their daughters was Jennet (born 1665), named Jennye in her father's will. It has been said that Jenny was
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a lover waiting for her lost sailor to return, a nanny who saved her charges from the tide, a lodging-house keeper, or a steam engine (or "jenny") sent to Brown's Point.
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at Jenny Brown's Point of which the remaining chimney was part. The whole operation was abandoned in 1788 after lawsuits, and Gibson died in 1791.
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right to mine for copper at Cragfoot, inland from the point, on land owned by the Townleys of
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Martin, Louise (Summer 2018). "Investigating the Jenny Brown's Point chimney site".
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A nearby chimney, sometimes described as a tower, is grade II
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Martin, Louise; Williams, Simon. "Jenny Brown's Point".
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Brown's House

Silverdale
City of Lancaster
Lancashire
Morecambe Bay
Ordnance Survey
listed
Leighton Hall
reverberatory furnace


Matchless
"Jenny Brown's Point, Lancaster"


"Jenny Brown revisited"
Historic England
"Tower on shore at Jenny Brown's Point 120 metres east-north-east of Brown's House (1317165)"
National Heritage List for England
"Jenny Brown's Point, Silverdale"
"Investigating Jenny Brown's Point"
"Captain Mutter and Walduck's Wall (part one)"
"Captain Mutter and Walduck's Wall (part two)"
Historic England
"Brown's House (1362447)"
National Heritage List for England
Mort, Graham
Terroir: seven short stories
Seren Books

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