Stepaside Ironworks & Colliery 2024

The Pembrokeshire Coal and Ironworks Company opened the ironworks in 1849. The ore was obtained largely from levels driven in the cliffs between Saundersfoot and Amroth and transported by the branch line of the Saundersfoot Railway, which also carried pig iron to Saundersfoot for export. In its final stage the ironworks consisted of two blast furnaces, blowing engines, coke ovens, lime kilns and workshops, and the sites of refineries and ancillary structures together with evidence of the tramroad network that served them. The Works were only moderately successful: no pig iron was produced after 1874 and work ceased in 1877. The workshops were retained for service to local collieries until 1930.