Learning Centre
Our fully accessible Learning Centre. Our new café is coming soon!
Abbeydale Works was once a producer of agricultural tools and the largest water-powered industrial site on the River Sheaf. It is now a group of Grade I and Grade II listed buildings and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
See the Manager's House and Worker's Cottage, waterwheels, workshops, tilt hammers, a grinding hull, steam engine and the last complete surviving crucible steel furnace in the UK!
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet has been restored and transformed following a 3 year £1million Heritage Lottery Funded restoration project completed in 2016.
Take a tour of Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet and find out about Benjamin Huntsman’s industry-changing invention of the crucible steel method.
Our fully accessible Learning Centre. Our new café is coming soon!
Our new gallery tells the story behind the works, its people and their working lives.
Everyone can get hand-on with history at The Works!
Rediscover Abbeydale with so many exciting changes to explore ...
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