Pot House Hamlet Silkstone (geograph 2767808)

Silkstone glassworks is situated at Pot House Hamlet, a historic former industrial site in

Silkstone Silkstone is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, between the towns of Barnsley and Penistone. The parish includes the village of Silks ...

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, England. A

glass works Glass production involves two main methods – the float glass process that produces sheet glass, and glassblowing that produces bottles and other containers. It has been done in a variety of ways during the history of glass. Glass container ...

was established at Silkstone around 1659 by John Pilmey, who had emigrated from France some years earlier. The glassworks had two furnaces, one for green glass and the other for white. Pilmey married Abigail Scott at Silkstone in 1658. Later she was one of the signatories who successfully petitioned Parliament against the Glass Tax in 1696. Her death is recorded on William Scott's gravestone in the North Aisle of Silkstone Church. In 1718, John Warburton, when preparing his map of

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, noted as he passed Silkstone Church "pass a rill at the bottom the glass house on the right." The remains of the glassworks and pottery were excavated by

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in 2003, and the site was subsequently protected as a

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. Pot House Hamlet now consists of a number of independent small businesses.

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