ABSTRACT
‘Before the railway system was developed to its present extent,’ .D observed the former chief engineer of the Dowlais Iron Works, ‘it was always considered that the ironstone should be carried to the coal, but partly by increased facilities of communication, and partly by improved manufacture, it has in many cases been found more advantageous to carry the coal as coke, to the iron ore…’ 1 This change in the balance of the factors of location, noted by an intelligent observer of the state of industry in his own day, is most strikingly illustrated by the rise of the Cleveland District of North Yorkshire.
