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One English town had 216 salt houses
In 1605, Nantwich in Cheshire had 216 salt houses, each with six lead pans for boiling brine. Salt had been made there since Roman times, but the town made its last salt in 1856.
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Original sources
- Calvert, A.F. Salt and the Salt Industry. Pitman, 1919. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69590
- Wikipedia. Nantwich. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantwich