The principal ironworks were built by the British Iron Company in 1825; the works passed to the New British Iron Company in 1843 and to the Ebbw Vale Company in 1852, before closing in 1889.
Attwood then appealed to the House of Lords where a final verdict in his favour was given in March 1838.
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Brierley Hill, Dudley Wood and Netherton were all held under lease from the Dudley estate.
He was appointed a director of the British Iron Company in 1826 although not without misgivings among some of the shareholders as to his suitability for such a post.
Subsequently he was occupied in reporting on mining properties, including that of the British Iron Company in South Wales, his plaster model of which received the Isis medal of the Society of Arts.
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