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Hennet Spink and Else | Cotehele | Cornwall

Hennet Spink and Else - Cotehele

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Location: Cotehele   |   Category: Historic   |   Photograph Added: 6th July 2011 | Photo Reference: 3467

George Hennet was a railway engineer and contractor, who bought an ironworks at Bridgwater in Somerset as from this location it was possible to import by boat raw materials from Wales and the dispatch the finished work to south Devon using the Bristol and Exeter Railway. The carriage workshops for this were on an adjacent site. when he joined forces with his son they traded as Hennet, Spink & Else