Furnace, Argyll

Furnace is a small town in a sparsely populated region of the Scottish Unitary Authority Argyll and Bute. It is about eleven kilometers southwest of Inveraray on the northern shore of the sea inlet of Loch Fyne. Between 1961 and 1971, the population of Furnace of 70 tripled to 220 in 1991, 300 inhabitants were already counted. Furnace is just off the A83, which connects Campbeltown on the Kintyre peninsula to the Central Belt and is therefore well connected to the highway system. In the Furnace flowing out hole Leacann flow Leacann Water flows into the Loch Fyne.

History

Furnace developed around a steel mill, from which also the name of the village, English Furnace means " ( Hoch-/Schmelz ) oven ", derives. Owner of the operated 1755-1812 hut was the Duddon Furnace Company from the English region of Cumbria. The coastal location allowed the transportation of iron ore and metallurgical products by water. Required charcoal was recovered from the forests in the area. The associated charcoal camp was subsequently included in the Scottish lists of monuments in the highest category A.

After the closure of the iron and steelworks 1841 Granite in Furnace was mined from the year. In a valley above the village there was this, a gunpowder factory, which consisted of many spacious buildings arranged.