Shipping Ironstone down the coast by John Rushton

A forgotten industry along the Yorkshire coast was the graving of ironstone from cliff fall, and perhaps in places from the cliff face. The rock was loaded on ships for delivery to the iron works of county Durham in late Georgian times . Scarborough Corporation made a contract in 1749 letting the "brown stones or brown mine laying and being in and upon the sands" for fourteen years to Thomas Calisthenes in 1749 . The lease was probably renewed. The Corporation made another contract with Richard Fishwick of Newcastle for ironstone from the beach in 1800 on payment of £250.

The Seamer estate steward was involved in the management of the iron forge at Forge Valley. He reported in 1793 that ironstone had lately been found in the cliff near the Scarborough spaw , much the same as that produced in the West Riding. Other contracts were made by land owners north and south of Scarborough. Fishwick had another lease for £250 from Richard Hill, himself lessee of the rights of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1801 of "all mineral, fossil or stone called or denominated ironstone on the seashore from Hayburn to Peaseholm".He was allowed to erect sheds, for 14 years, provided that he left access for others to burn seaweed or kelp.

John Rushton

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