Valley of Ironbridge

The Vallée of Ironbridge (Ironbridge Gorges) is a whole of sites of industrial archeology located on the river Severn, in the Shropshire, England, registered since 1986 on the Liste of the world heritage of UNESCO.

  • , approximately 60 km NO of Birmingham.

History

The valley of Ironbridge is regarded as the cradle of the Industrial revolution. The bridge Iron Bridge was built in 1779 to connect the small industrial city of Broseley, on Right Bank, at the mining and industrial villages of Madeley and Coalbrookdale, on left bank.

All was joined together so that a great industrial area develops: the coal, the Iron, the Calcareous and the Argile are the raw materials of the Sidérurgie and the Céramique, and the river Severn was then the great transportation route.

The notoriety of the valley started with the development of the technique of the cast iron to the coke with Abraham Darby in the village of Coalbrookdale. Then a diversified industry thrived in all the villages of the neighborhoods.

Industrial archeology, visits

The site of the valley of Ironbridge gathers the bridge Iron Bridge and the surrounding industrial facilities, which constitute a tourist and cultural whole exceptional of vestiges and memories of the beginnings of the Industrial revolution.

One can visit:

  • villages of Broseley, Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale, cradle of the cast iron to the coke;

See also: Coalbrookdale

See also: Iron Bridge

Ironbridge Gorge Natural history musea Trust is in charge of the conservation of all the points of visit of the mining and industrial installations located in the vicinity:

  • the museum in the open air of Blist Hill (Blists Hill Victorian Town)

  • the tilted Plane of Hay (Hay Inclined Planes) , on the same site as the precedent

See also: Plane tilted of Hay

  • the museum of the pipe of Broseley (Broseley Pipeworks)

  • the museum of the iron of Coalbrookdale (Coalbrookdale Museum off Iron)

  • the museum of the porcelain of Coalport (Coalport Clouded Museum)

  • the bitumen tunnel (Coalport Tar Tunnel)

  • houses of Darby (Darby Houses)

  • the interactive unit of design and technology (Enginuity)

  • the museum of the earthenware squares (Jackfield Strips Museum)

  • the river museum (Museum off the Throat)

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