ABSTRACT
The Dissolution of the Monastery is one of the few conspicuous events in our local history, and it is to the subsequent reports and documents relating to the administration and partition of the possessions of the Abbey, that we are indebted for the first full and detailed account of the Furness district. We have, therefore, to look to these records for information on the subject of iron-making in the sixteenth century. The Commissioners’ Certificate of June 30th, 1537, after stating that there was much wood in Furness Fells, and that the Abbots had been accustomed to have a smithy there and sometimes two or three, goes on to say:—
The three smithies.
