Donnington Wood Canal
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The Donnington Wood Canal was a 5.5-mile private canal in East Shropshire, England, which ran from coal pits owned by Earl Gower at Donnington Wood to Pave Lane on the Wolverhampton to Newport Turnpik
The basin at the foot of the Lilleshall incline now serves as a pond
Steven's Water Engine Pit, c.1900 or c.1920, which supplied water to the canal until 1928, long after the mine had closed. One of the tub boats used on the canal can be seen in the foreground.
Little Hales Bridge crossed the bed of the canal, which is now part of the road to Lilleshall Hall
The remains of the tunnel which served the vertical shafts from the main line of the canal prior to the building of the inclined plane in 1797
Wombridge Canal
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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 i
Donnington Wood Canal
…coal, limestone and ironstone, from the locations where they were mined to furnaces where the iron ore was processed. The canal was connected to the Wombridge Canal and the Shropshire Canal. Lord Gower, the brother-in-law of the Duke of Bridgewater, who had pioneered the canal age with his Bridgewater Canal, was…
Remains of a bridge over the infilled canal at Wrockwardine Wood in 1963
Bullock's Mill, built beside the canal in 1818, has now been converted into apartments. The canal ran behind the building.