ironworks

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of ironwork
2. A factory in which iron is manufactured or iron goods are made.

   “But, like more than one similar North Wales beauty-spot, there had to be (at least at the time of which I write), a quarry, or ironworks, or some kind of industrial plant, which lay perpetually under a cloud of yellowish smoke—literally a blot on the landscape.”

   “Many of its cottages were built for quarrymen when local workings provided limestone for the great 19th-century ironworks at Nantyglo.”