Location:
- Grid reference: ST6073738722
- x=360737
- y=138722
- 51°8'47"N; 2°33'40"W
- Civil Parish: Pylle, Somerset
Clinker manufacture operational: 1900-1912
Approximate total clinker production: 19,000 tonnes
Raw materials: Blue Lias Limestone (Blue Lias Formation: 190-200 Ma) surrounding the kilns
Ownership: Farrance and Boynton
There were three bottle kilns, of which perhaps two (dry process) were for cement. Davis rates output at 50 t/week. The plant had been in existence since about 1880 and was generally described as producing “Blue Lias Lime and Selenitic Cement”, but in Kelly’s Directory of 1902, it also claims Portland cement. No such claim was made in the editions of 1897 or 1914. There must be some doubt as to whether real Portland cement was made at all. The plant was on the Burnham and Evercreech branch of the Someset and Dorset Joint Railway. The site is now agricultural land with a pond in the deepest part of the quarry.
Power supply
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Rawmills
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No rotary kilns were installed.
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