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Ore-inspiring! The race to raise £1.6m to save Yorkshire’s Victorian iron kilns

Heritage campaigners launch appeal to fund urgent works on the dramatic relics of industrial ironworks high on the North York Moors

They can be seen for miles around, a monumental relic of Victorian industry amid the stunning beauty of the North York Moors. But almost 100 years since the Rosedale iron kilns were last fired, they are in danger of being lost.

The 16 brick arches at the end of a 12-mile railway track, hand-built by navvies and cut into valley walls, are crumbling after decades of being battered by wind and rain. Now the North York Moors National Park Authority is preparing to launch a campaign to raise £1.6m to secure this piece of industrial heritage for generations to come.

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