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The public footpath sign clearly indicates the way leading from here at the end of Stewarts Road to Mucklow Hill but the battered old British Steel sign - complete with logo - states 'Private Property Trespassers will be Prosecuted'. The latter is in fact a surprising survivor from the time when this was the site of a vast steel tubes works. First opened in 1860, the works became a part of Stewarts & Lloyds Ltd before being nationalised in 1968. It eventually closed in the 1980s, a period when much of the UK's heavy industry disappeared. British Steel itself no longer exists, the remaining operations now being run by Tata, an Indian company.