Sandford, Dorset, England         OS Map Grid Ref: SY930897 MAPS FROM MULTIMAP 1:5,000   Photo 1:10,000   Photo 1:25,000     Photo 1:50,000     Photo 1:100,000     Photo www.streetmap.co.uk

Ferguson and Muschamp, formed in 1855, took over the oil shale workings of the Bituminous Shale Company at Kimmeridge and produced fertilizer at their Sandford works to the north-east of nearby Swanage. the company failed after only three years, in 1858, the workings and Sandford works being taken over by Wanostrocht and Company producing, among other products, shale-oil gas for street lighting in Paris. Finincial problems led to Wanostrocht and Company being bought by the Wareham Oil and Candle Company which, working on a smaller, scale survived until 1872 when the Sandford works were destroyed by fire and the Company was forced to wind up.