Furnace, Ceredigion Explained

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Static Image Caption:Dyfi Furnace
Country:Wales
Welsh Name:Ffwrnais
Coordinates:52.538°N -3.9409°W
Official Name:Furnace
Unitary Wales:Ceredigion
Lieutenancy Wales:Dyfed
Constituency Westminster:Ceredigion Preseli
Post Town:MACHYNLLETH
Postcode District:SY20
Postcode Area:SY
Dial Code:01654
Os Grid Reference:SN684951

Furnace (Welsh: Ffwrnais) is a hamlet in Ceredigion, Wales on the A487 trunk road from Machynlleth to Aberystwyth, near Eglwysfach.

It is the location of the Dyfi Furnace, used from the 1750s to the 19th century to make pig iron with charcoal as fuel. The site had been used by the Silver Mills of the Society of Mines Royal.

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