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Greenfield Mills; Battery Works, Greenfield Valley

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NPRN40437
Map ReferenceSJ17NE
Grid ReferenceSJ1895076740
Unitary (Local) AuthorityFlintshire
Old CountyFlintshire
CommunityHolywell
Type Of SiteCOPPER WORKS
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
1. The battery works are a part of the larger Greenfield Mills complex. The remains include sandstone foundations, a wheel, battery and annealing pits. There are later rolling mills.
RCAHMW, March 2009.

2. The main products were copper sheets, and the copper bolts with which they were fixed, for bottoming wooden ships to prevent the accumulation of weeds and frustrate the damage done by boring marine molluscs.
W J Crompton, RCAHMW, 1 September 2016.