[TQ 5323 4594] A Bloomery was situated in Leigh parish at Lat. 51 deg 11' 30" N. Long 0 deg 11' 35" E. The place names Cinderhill and Cinderhill Field refer. There is a very large pit to the east of the road in Penshurst Park and several small ones in the fields west of the road. Round one of these latter a certain amount of bloomery cinder is to be found. This was probably the working place. (1) The site of this bloomery is indicated by a scatter of cinder around the edge of a pond at TQ 5328 4590. (2) Bloomery at Leigh, TQ 533459 listed in the checklist of all known bloomeries in The Iron Industry of the Weald. (3)

Additional Information (5-6)

<1> Wealden Iron 1931, p.219 (E Straker) (OS Card Reference). SKE51303.

<2> F1 AC 29-APR-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE41848.

<3> The Iron Ind of the Weald 1985 292 (H Cleere & D Crossley) (OS Card Reference). SKE50390.

<4> Field report for monument TQ 54 NW 4 - April, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE2721.

<5> Cluttons, 1994, Penshurst Place: Whole estate management plan (Unpublished document). SKE6947.

<6> Nicola Bannister, Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge (Unpublished document). SKE6946.