Godfrey Box

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Godfrey Box was a 16th-century British entrepreneur. An immigrant from the Low Countries, he built England's first iron-splitting mill on the River Darent at Dartford Creek in Dartford, Kent, some time between 1590 and 1595. [1]

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  1. ↑ "Godfrey Box And The Splitting Mill". Notes and Queries. 3 (56). England: Oxford Publishing: 48. 21 January 1899. In Howes 1631 edition of Stow's Annals


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