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Low Wood Gunpowder Works (also Lowwood) was a gunpowder mill founded in Furness, England, at the end of the 18th century. It became a significant supplier, and survived as a business until taken over by Imperial Chemical Industries around 1930. The works has been disused since 1935.〔(English Heritage Risk Register, ''Lowwood Gunpowder Works, Haverthwaite, South Lakeland, Cumbria''. )〕 The mill was set up on an estuary site, for sea access, on the River Leven. Initially it was called Daye Barker & Co., the founding partners being Daye Barker, James King, Christopher Wilson and Joseph Fayrer.〔(TNA, ''Low Wood Gunpowder Works Summary List''. )〕 The surviving Clock Tower Works is a Grade II * Listed Building.〔(britishlistedbuildings.co.uk, ''Clock Tower Works, Haverthwaite''. )〕 Gunpowder production in the area (now southern Cumbria) had begun in 1764, with a mill at Sedgwick built by John Wakefield of Kendal. An important aspect was the supply of the triangular trade, in particular of Liverpool merchants engaged in it. The Low Wood works started to operate in 1798.〔Crocker, p. 1.〕 ==Background== The Lowwood site, near Haverthwaite, had been used earlier for a forge of the 17th century, under the alternate name Burnbarrow (closed down by 1620). In the 18th century Isaac Wilkinson set up a furnace for iron production. A pre-existing weir may have been used by the forge.〔(ancientmonuments.info, ''Lowwood Gunpowder Works''. )〕 Factors favouring gunpowder mill sites in what is now Cumbria included the existing charcoal industry and water power. Daye Barker left his cotton business at nearby Backbarrow in 1798.〔http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/15130/pages/429/page.pdf〕 Daye Barker & Co was issued a gunpowder license on 2 October of that year.〔Crocker, p. 2.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Low Wood Gunpowder Works」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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