Location:
- Grid reference: ST30773661
- x=330770
- y=136610
- 51°7'28"N; 2°59'21"W
- Civil Parish: Bridgwater Within, Somerset
Clinker manufacture operational: 1894-1914
Approximate total clinker production: 111,000 tonnes
Raw materials: Blue Lias limestone (Blue Lias Formation: 190-200 Ma), from Puriton.
Ownership:
- 1894-1897 Thomas Holden
- 1897-1911 Bridgwater Portland Cement Co. Ltd (incorporated 1897: bought by Wilkinson & Leng 8/1901: re-incorporated 1907)
- 1911-1914 BPCM (Blue Circle: operated as part of South Wales PC Co. Ltd)
The plant was built south of the Colly Lane Patent Tile and Pottery Works, with a siding on the GWR Bristol to Exeter railway. Raw materials were brought, probably from Downend, by river and by road. The plant had three chamber kilns rated at 80 t/week in 1901, when it was put up for sale. Five chamber kilns were rated at 120 t/week in Davis' 1907 list and 147 t/week in 1913. From 1914, the site was a depot for Penarth cement, although a newspaper article suggests it was still making clinker in late 1916.
Power supply
No information.
Rawmills
No information.
Please contact me with any relevant information or corrections.
No rotary kilns were installed.
Sources::
- Primary Sources:
- Greenhithe Archive
- Newspapers
- Confirmatory Sources: