A small part of the canal in Paddock Mount, Ketley still holds water
Specifications
Locks
1 + 1 inclined plane
Status
mostly destroyed
History
Principal engineer
William Reynolds
Date of act
Privately built
Date of first use
1788
Date closed
1880s
Geography
Connects to
Shropshire Canal
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Shropshire Tub Boat Canals
Legend
Shropshire Union Canal
Pave Lane
Lilleshall limeworks
Donnington Wood Canal
Lilleshall Branch
Humber Branch
Newport Canal
Old Yard Junction
Wrockwardine Wood plane
Wombridge Canal
Trench Branch
Wombridge mines
Ketley Canal
Snedshill Tunnel
Shrewsbury Canal
Stirchley Tunnel
Horsehay Branch
Windmill inclined plane
Shropshire Canal
Hay Inclined Plane
Coalport wharf
River Severn
The Ketley Canal was a tub boat canal that ran for about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from Oakengates to Ketley works in Shropshire, England. The canal was built about 1788 and featured the first inclined plane in Britain. The main cargo of the canal was coal and ironstone (a form of iron ore). The inclined ceased to be used in 1816, when Ketley Works was closed, but the upper canal was not finally abandoned until the 1880s. A few traces of the canal are still visible in the landscape.
The KetleyCanal was a tub boat canal that ran for about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from Oakengates to Ketley works in Shropshire, England. The canal was built...
canals: the Wombridge Canal, the KetleyCanal and the Shropshire Canal with the first successful inclined planes in Great Britain. He lived at Ketley...
Donnington Wood Canal ascending the 316 yard long Wrockwardine Wood inclined plane to its summit level, it made a junction with the older KetleyCanal and at Southall...
raise canal boats on England's KetleyCanal. 1792 – William Reynolds of Ketley Ironworks constructed several inclined planes on the Shropshire Canal. 1792–1921...
The following list of canals in the United Kingdom, includes some systems that are navigable rivers with sections of canal (e.g. Aire and Calder Navigation)...
installed anywhere in the world: the first actually installed on a canal was on the KetleyCanal in 1788. The project was estimated to cost £17,495, which would...
ironmaster from Ketley, who was responsible for several of the East Shropshire Canals, including the Wombridge Canal and the KetleyCanal. The money was...
were three furnaces, and in 1785 a forge began operation. In 1788 the KetleyCanal was completed; it brought coal and ironstone from Oakengates to the works...
a canal inclined plane in the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, with a height of 207 feet (63 m). It was located at the end of the Shropshire Canal, part...
The Carlisle Canal opened in 1823, linking Carlisle to the Solway Firth, to facilitate the transport of goods to and from the city. It was a short-lived...
William Reynolds (industrialist) (1758–1803), English ironmaster, built KetleyCanal William Bainbridge Reynolds (1855–1935), English metal craftsman and...
on England's KetleyCanal in 1788. This was its first use in American canals, and served as a pattern for others including the Morris Canal in New Jersey...
the late 18th century the KetleyCanal was constructed to carry coal and ironstone from Oakengates to Ketley works. The canal has long since fallen into...
the Bude Canal Kelpie boatlift, part of the Falkirk Helix project The Inclined Plane of the KetleyCanal Marhamchurch Incline on the Bude Canal Merrifield...
on the KetleyCanal carried 8 tons, but those on the Shropshire Canal were not as deep, and carried 5 tons. The locks on the Shrewsbury Canal were designed...
canals carried tub boats. The first of these was the Donnington Wood Canal which opened in 1768, to be followed by the Wombridge Canal and the Ketley...
The Wombridge Canal was a tub-boat canal in Shropshire, England, built to carry coal and iron ore from mines in the area to the furnaces where the iron...
Ketley Town Halt railway station was a station in Ketley, Shropshire, England. The station was opened in 1936 and closed in 1962. The station was located...
became separate from Coalbrookdale, continuing (in conjunction with the Ketley Ironworks) in the hands of the Reynolds family who had been in partnership...
Press. Ketley, Andrew BN (2021). Wisbech Inns, Taverns and Beer-Houses: Past and Present. Vol. 1. Friends of Wisbech & Fenland Museum. Ketley, Andrew...
1755–56, when Darby's son Abraham Darby II built furnaces at Horsehay and Ketley where low sulfur coal was available (and not far from Coalbrookdale). These...
engineering practice. In 1802 he was hired by the Ketley Ironworks in Shropshire. After five years at Ketley, Rastrick partnered with John Hazledine, in Bridgnorth...
2021. "Public Office, Bow-street". Sun (London). 17 August 1805. p. 3. Ketley, Andy (2022). Wisbech Inns, Taverns and Beer-Houses : Past and Present....
sent to prison for four years; Libby Senterfit, who jailed Bennell; Keith Ketley abused boys in Ipswich, under a different name, but had a previous conviction...
success, and led to the partners building new furnaces at Horsehay and Ketley. This was the beginning of a great expansion in coke ironmaking. In 1767...
June 1800 by Act of Parliament and the first engines are built under it. Ketley's Building Society is founded in Birmingham as the world's first building...
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