Remains of a bridge over the infilled canal at Wrockwardine Wood in 1963
Specifications
Status
destroyed
History
Principal engineer
William Reynolds
Date completed
1788
Date closed
1921
Geography
Connects to
Shrewsbury Canal, Donnington Wood 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 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 was extracted. It opened in 1788, and parts of it were taken over by the Shrewsbury Canal Company in 1792, who built an inclined plane at Trench. It lowered tub boats 75 feet (23 m), and remained in operation until 1921, becoming the last operational canal inclined plane in the country. The canal had been little used since 1919, and closed with the closure of the plane.
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furnaces where the iron ore was processed. The canal was connected to the WombridgeCanal and the Shropshire Canal. Lord Gower, the brother-in-law of the Duke...
intellectuals connected with Joseph Plymley. Having completed the WombridgeCanal and the Ketley Canal with its inclined plane in 1788, Reynolds, who was by now...
responsible for several of the East Shropshire Canals, including the WombridgeCanal and the Ketley Canal. The money was used to complete the line to Nantwich...
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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...
undertook the construction of three tub boat canals: the WombridgeCanal, the Ketley Canal and the Shropshire Canal with the first successful inclined planes...
In the following year, he built the WombridgeCanal. Reynolds and his father started work on the Ketley Canal in 1787, in order to transport ironstone...
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Station Hill with only the goods shed still standing. Shadrach Fox ran the Wombridge Iron Works in Oakengates and with Abraham Darby was involved in experiments...
after Telford had died. The Shrewsbury Canal was authorised in 1793, and connected Shrewsbury to the WombridgeCanal at Trench, passing through Wappenshall...
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