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Dist:0.1km<br/>These cottages, probably originally intended for canal workers, stood close to the bridge carrying Teagues Bridge Lane (now renamed Wombridge Road) over the tub-boat canal from the top of Trench Inclined Plane to the collieries at Donnington Wood and other places. They were demolished soon after this photograph was taken in 1967.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Named for the Teagues Bridge which formerly crossed the canal here [[334624]]. An extensive history of the canals (& railways) of the area is available at http://www.telford.org.uk/ and neatly maps the route of the canals throughout the district.
©Richard Law
Dist:0.2km<br/>The Bridge Inn, Wombridge Rd, Wrockwardine Wood, named after the Teagues Bridge that used to cross the canal that existed in this area.
©Gordon Cragg
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©Row17
Dist:0.2km<br/>A lot of change has taken place here since this 1963 photograph. All the buildings in the foreground have gone, (also the old Bridge Inn which was just out of shot to the left) to be replaced by modern houses. And the road, which had just been widened here, is now called Wombridge Road. Note the complete absence of traffic.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.2km<br/>This photograph shows the remains of one of the original bridges over the Shropshire High Level canal system that one existed in this area. The lane passing over the bridge was called Teagues Bridge Lane, but is now a motor road and re-named Wombridge Road in about 1965. The boats using this canal were tub boats, about 20ft x 6ft 3ins in dimension, and they worked in 'gangs' of four, carrying coal. Travelling west, the loaded boats would then work down the Tranch inclined plane, at the foot of which the coal was trans-shipped into narrow boats. The area of this photograph is now completely built over with modern housing.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.3km<br/>Church Road, Wrockwardine Wood, Telford looking North, from the side of the churchyard.
©Gordon Cragg
Dist:0.3km<br/>The child here is standing on the deck of a former canal bridge. The canal has been filled in, although had I got here about five years earlier it would probably have still been in water. This was the Wombridge Canal, opened in 1788, which extended westwards from the previously isolated Donnington Wood Canal to Wombridge, and later about 1795 was connected by the Trench Inclined Plane to the Shrewsbury Canal at Trench Lock. The canal here was used by tub boats, measuring about 20ft x 6ft, and with capacity for about 8 tons of coal. The main traffic was coal, westwards from the collieries at Donnington Wood to Shrewsbury. At Trench Lock, the cargo was transferred from the tub boats into special 'narrow' narrowboats for onward shipment to Shrewsbury. Unfortunately the zombies of the Telford New Town development agency ignored all the rich industrial heritage in this area, and it has now all disappeared submerged in a sea of mediocrity.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.3km<br/>What could be an attractive street scene, at this recent development at Church Road, Wrockwardine Wood, Telford, is blighted by the accursed wheelie bins. Why,Oh,Why do they not make provision for the storage of these bins when they design new property?
©Gordon Cragg
Dist:0.3km<br/>At the back of the extensive Telford Athletics stadium development, a large area of sports and playing fields. This bridleway runs alongside them.
©Richard Law
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©Richard Law
Dist:0.4km<br/>This old flour mill at Wrockwardine Wood, was built alongside the old canal about 1818. In use as a mill until the thirties, it has now been converted into apartments.
©Gordon Cragg
Dist:0.4km<br/>The junction of the two roads, with post box TF2 61 in the wall pillar.
©Richard Law
Dist:0.4km<br/>A former flour mill on the extinct canal between Wrockwardine Wood and Trench http://www.telford.org.uk/; it's now converted to apartments in the main part of the building, and a police centre in the small annexe on the left-hand side.
©Richard Law
Dist:0.4km<br/>Church Road, Wrockwardine Wood, Telford looking South from opposite the churchyard.
©Gordon Cragg

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