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Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown Copyright and database right 2011 The waymarked route is steep in parts (with and D O N N without steps) and utilises beaten paths through I MUXTON granvillE N G OK W A M T R O Y . D green spaces which may be wet and slippery O H B U A W S M A R X O N T O O R W O N L D O Exit the car park, cross the road and turn right along the O B I L Heritage Trail N A O O E N H D C E C L path to the information board above the Donnington . S W 11 A We invite you to explore the industrial history of Y Wood tub boat canal. Go through the gate further on to your left. Fork left and follow the handrail leading to North East Telford which lies hidden among its Muxton Marsh the remains of the canal. C streets and green places. H U 12 R C Built H by Earl Gower in 1768, the Donnington Wood D A R O Y O 1 R M Discover the contribution that Granville Leveson A A S A Donnington R Tub Boat Canal was one of the earliest canals in N D S W E H E Wood B K Gower, the second Earl Gower, his descendants U Roundabout R O O Q 10 Britain. It ran 5½ miles from the coal mines at D A 13 R O the Dukes of Sutherland and the Lilleshall ’S Donnington Wood to a coal wharf at Pave Lane where EW 0 TH School 4 AT 6 M 4 Company which he formed in 1802 had on the T A surplus coal was sold. This branch was used by horse S Y A lives of ordinary working people. S drawn tub boats to transport raw materials in and T W G E D O D smelted iron out of the Lodge furnaces. Other branches R O A G O DONNINGTON Imagine the iron furnaces, O E R ’ S W S served the limestone quarries at Lilleshall. R E O T N A A D O mines, factories and the D OA Granville G R Central Y T N LE G Country TRENCH E A D 14 K Hall BR N canals in their heyday. A I Park O N Old Lodge Furnaces Council N Oces Courtesy of Ironbridge O START POINT D School 9 Gorge Museum Trust PLO UG Portrait of Granville H Supermarket R G R A N V I L L E R O A D Leverson Gower O A D 1 WAY S D S T O UM M O G Granville W O E ME Roundabout I N E S O D S R R R G R A E C O ’ W S RES. A K R D Depot C O O A R 8 D W T U R 73 O 43 C B Wrockwardine K Wood AR P R E E D R Cockshutt E G D Dawes O Piece H W A D R O Bower E E R Y I R O K L R O L S The T R Rookery W E E A 7 T Y Wrockwardine A Wood 4 Continue on and up the steps at the end. Follow the 6 4 0 2 path almost straight ahead to the remains of the Lodge T H E N REDHILL Furnaces. The Nabb A NORTH A B Granville Heritage Trail B 4 5 4 2 H Short cut route n 1822, the Lilleshall Company built two furnaces I L T Q O N N T Church U SC E here to supplement those it had in Donnington T E I R E E C R R E R Car park A E 4 K N C L Wood. A further furnace was added in 1846 and A E W 6 S ET S T RE Nature area W N T I ON H L B I O ST GEORGE’S two more in 1859. They produced internationally A I A A T L S L Y Recreation Ground Limekiln Bank recognised quality iron until 1888 when they were 3 Roundabout E E T C H U R C H S T R W E S T S T R E E T A5 R O M A N R O A D blown out for economic reasons. T S D S R A S Continue to the remains of the basement stables of Look out for these O S C H O O L S T - P F R E E T Y F B A ’ S SCALE: 1 kilometre waymarkers along T E the ironworks office on your right. S R G the route E O G S T uilt, originally, to store blasting powder used in St George’s Parish Church Turn right and pass Old Toll Gate on your left, the Bnearby mines, this later formed the basement of the Courtesy of Ironbridge Gorge site of a tollgate on Gower Street then owned by Museum Trust furnaces’ ironworks office and was used as stabling for the Lilleshall Company. The buildings ahead have the office workers’ horses. Later the office was converted to original facade of the Lilleshall Company’s famous a house which was finally demolished in the 1960s. New Yard Engineering Works New Yard engineering works. from S. Griffiths History of the Turn right at the main path. On your left look for the Iron Trade of Great Britain Built as the ‘Phoenix remains of a brick privy. 5 Foundry’ in 1861, it was lthough close to the Lodge Furnaces it is thought described as a “great foundry Athat this was associated with a small mill or a coal and engineering factory” washing plant later, in 1875, converted to a house. constructing “steam Look for the culvert next to the privy covering a stream hammers, locomotives and entering the canal. all kinds of steam engines”. Many of the company’s own Continue on the main path past the header pool for locomotives were the canal and the other end of the culvert. the resulting building was known locally as ‘St George’s constructed here as were large engines of various types Pass through a kissing gate and, at a T-junction, turn Barn’. After sporadic fund raising between 1899 and 1928 for customers as far away as Bombay and Shanghai. The right and continue to a metal gate. The main route the present tower was finally built. company won a number of prizes for exhibits produced becomes steep here. (For a flatter route, follow the here for the London International Exhibition in 1862. Hutchinson Trail through the gate and continue along Continue down the road to find St George’s Institute Go back up Gower Street and turn right into Albion what is the path of the old mineral railway for about to your right. Street. 1km to re-join the main route). uilt on land granted by the 4th Duke of Take lefthand path up a slope. Bear left and near the BSutherland, the Institute served the local 6 A smaller hospital was built by The Lilleshall top of the long rise, fork left and left again. On the community with a library, a reading room, and a games Company in Albion Street (nos 51 & 53) with 8 beds, top of the slope is a meadow where you can see the and billiards room. Mrs Perrot, who laid the foundation a matron, a nursing sister and a female attendant. It had Grange Colliery winding gear in the distance. stone was wife of William Perrot, the secretary of a separate mortuary, now used as a garage to the right of the properties. Originally called the Albert and Alexandra, this pit the Lilleshall Company. After 1927, the main Reading 2 was sunk in 1864 to exploit the deep coal seams east Room was rented as a cookery classroom for the local Continue along Albion Street, turning right into West of the region’s faultline which gave access to surface coal schools. A smaller one was created on the first floor Street, then Hilton Terrace. Turn right at ‘The Nabb’ in earlier ‘bell’ pits. In 1951 it was linked underground with and used by the county library until 1956. Billiards keeping to the main path. was still being played here in 1980 and the Good the Granville system, sunk in 1860, to drain and ventilate n 1878, the Lilleshall Company purchased a public house the latter and both were closed in 1979. Neighbours (an old people’s club) met here. It is now a number of residential flats. Iin the Nabb called ‘The Bird in Hand’ to “safeguard the Cross the meadow and down the path. Turn right and workers beer”! continue for 120m and turn sharp left. Follow the main Continue down Church Street and turn right As the path curves right at the top of a slight rise, you path and continue until the path meets the bridleway. immediately before the Cottage Springs public house may see on the left an overgrown platform, the site of Turn left, continue to a T-junction and turn left again and continue straight on into Dukes Way. Turn left then a tin chapel, similar to that in Blists Hill Victorian Town. (re-joining the Hutchinson Trail). After about 150m, fork right into Urban Villas. Cross Gower Street, (named At a signpost take the right fork (Restricted Byway) left up a beaten path to a disused metalled road.