Coalbrookdale Coalfield information

The Coalbrookdale Coalfield is a coalfield in Shropshire in the English Midlands. It extends from Broseley in the south, northwards to the Boundary Fault...

Coalbrookdale is a village in the Ironbridge Gorge and the Telford and Wrekin borough of Shropshire, England, containing a settlement of great significance...

The Cinderloo Uprising took place at Old Park in the Coalbrookdale Coalfield (present day Telford) on 2 February 1821, when the South Shropshire Yeomanry...

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as Ironbridge, the commercial and administrative centre of the Coalbrookdale coalfield. The Iron Bridge proprietors also built the Tontine Hotel to accommodate...

also influenced the naming of the 1821 Cinderloo Uprising in the Coalbrookdale Coalfield of east Shropshire. The uprising saw 3,000 protesting workers confronted...

is flanked in part to the west by the Coalbrookdale Coalfield and to the east by the South Staffordshire Coalfield. The sedimentary sequence, principally...

Yeomanry fire on a crowd of miners striking over a pay cut in the Coalbrookdale Coalfield, killing three. 16 February – John Scott, editor of The London...

Hamblin, R.J.O. & Coppack, B.C., 1995 Geology of Telford and the Coalbrookdale Coalfield, Memoir of the British Geological Survey, parts of sheets 152 &...

shareholder of the Coalbrookdale Company). The new furnace ushered in a period of great activity when the East Shropshire Coalfield, for a time, became...

Limestone member each of which comprises both limestone and mudstone) Coalbrookdale Formation (green-grey mudstones, formerly known as the Grey or Wenlock...

times and occurred in many different parts of the country. Britain's coalfields are associated with Northumberland and Durham, North and South Wales,...

Euproops rotundatus (Prestwich 1840). From the Upper Carboniferous of Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England. Also recorded from Coal Measures at Westhoughton...

extent constructed during the Industrial Revolution on the Shropshire Coalfield. The M54 motorway was completed in 1983, improving the town's road links...

tree—after his final defeat at the Battle of Worcester. The area around Coalbrookdale is regarded as one of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution and...

the daily commute to work. Mine railways were used from 1804 around Coalbrookdale in such industrial concentrations of mines and iron works, all demanding...

ore. Much has changed since Bevan's speech (below) in 1945, with the coalfields largely deserted and the Empire relinquished. With its dominant position...

Abraham Darby made progress using coke to fuel his blast furnaces at Coalbrookdale. However, the coke pig iron he made was not suitable for making wrought...

The first coke-fired blast furnace had been constructed in 1709, at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, but it was almost a century later before they began to...

region of east Shropshire, England, that adjoined the River Severn at Coalbrookdale. It ran from a junction with the Donnington Wood Canal ascending the...

Aberystruth from John Miles. Situated on the northern tip of the South Wales coalfield and located next to the River Ebbw, they had easy access to the basic...

glass production went into decline. Abraham Darby left Bristol for Coalbrookdale when his advanced ideas for iron production received no backing from...

and Birmingham Canal opened. Iron bound for London was shipped from Coalbrookdale via the canal and the Dudley's Selly Oak branch. In the 1820s, several...

produce iron commercially using coke instead of charcoal at his works in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire in 1709. Abraham Darby was born near Wrens Nest Hill near...

and weak bridge. Trevithick had experimented with steam engines at Coalbrookdale in 1802. Brunel originally chose the broad gauge for the Great Western...