Sheffield Independent September 1, 1838

Kilnhurst Steel and File Works
Near Rotherham
To Be Sold or Let
With Immediate Possession

All those valuable and highly eligible Steel and File Works, advantageously situated at Kilnhurst, and joining the navigable River Don, and very near to the North Midland Railway; consisting of

Two Converting Furnaces, substantially built with Ashlar Stone, upon the most approved principle;

also an excellent Cast Steel Furnace, with a new Stack;

Casting House, spacious and convenient Yard, file shops, wharf, Crane, Charcoal sheds, suitable Warehouses, outbuildings, Counting House;

two Dwelling Houses, and every other Convenience for profitably carrying on both the Steel and File Trades, in an extensive way;

together with two Closes of valuable Grass Land, one of them are joining the Works and the Canal, and the other a short distance therefrom, both containing 5a 0n 6r, as the all of the above premises violating the occupation of Mr John Beatson deceased, and now of his Executors.

There is a Railway from the Canal, through the Warehouse and Yard, to the Converting furnaces, thereby making it particularly convenient for the Delivery of Iron, Coke, coal etc.

Valuable, Suitable for the Melting Furnaces, may be had in the immediate neighbourhood, at a trifling expense; at goods may be shipped from the above premises to any part of the Kingdom.

If so, to accommodate a Purchaser, £1000 may, if required, remain on security of the Premises.

The Premises may be viewed an application at the work; and every other information obtained of Mr William Beatson, mas Borough; Mr Badger, Attorney, Rotherham.