The object of the meet is to visit three preserved charcoal blast furnaces in a day. If wet most of the trip could be indoors.
Meet 1030 at the visitors carpark in Backbarrow for a guided tour of the furnace.
SD35544 84631
https://www.backbarrowironworks.org.uk/
Meet at Newland furnace about 1230 to view our excavations in the floor of the blowing chamber – shown in the cover photo.
Park in the coalyard, SD29975 79710.
If time allows meet at Duddon Furnace, now re-opened after repairs.
SD19693 88293.
Bluebells and daffodils will be in season so the walk up the leat to the weir could be attractive.