Coalport
Coalport is a village in Shropshire, England. It is located on the River Severn in the Ironbridge Gorge, a mile downstream of Ironbridge. It lies predominantly on the north bank of the river; on the other side is Jackfield.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Geoff Pick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Coalport, Shropshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Coalport China Museum and Tar Tunnel.
Coalport China Museum
Museum
Photo: Scott14, Public domain.
The Coalport China Museum is one of the ten Ironbridge Gorge Museums administered by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. The museum is based in the village of Coalport within the Ironbridge Gorge on the northern bank of the River Severn in Shropshire, United Kingdom.
Tar Tunnel
Museum
Photo: David Stowell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Tar Tunnel is an abandoned tunnel located on the north bank of the River Severn in the Ironbridge Gorge at Coalport, England. It is one of ten Ironbridge Gorge Museums attractions administered by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.
Blists Hill Victorian Town
Museum
Photo: Helen Simonsson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex located in Madeley, Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Shropshire town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include The Tuckies and Jackfield.
The Tuckies
Hamlet
The Tuckies is a hamlet in the eastern part of Jackfield, lying on the south bank of the River Severn, in the Ironbridge Gorge, and opposite the village of Coalport.
Jackfield
Village
Photo: Cheryl Wallace, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Jackfield is a village in the Telford and Wrekin borough of Shropshire, England, lying on the south bank of River Severn in the Ironbridge Gorge, downstream from Ironbridge.
Madeley
Town
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Madeley is a historic market town and civil parish in the borough of Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England. The parish had a population of 18,774 at the 2021 census.
Coalport
- Category: locality
- Location: The Gorge, Telford and Wrekin, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.61884° or 52° 37′ 8″ northLongitude
-2.44956° or 2° 26′ 58″ westElevation
151 feet (46 metres)Open location code
9C4VJH92+G5OpenStreetMap ID
node 1472122362OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Welsh—“Coalport” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “柯爾波”
- Chinese: “柯爾波特”
- Dutch: “Coalport”
- French: “Coalport”
- Hebrew: “קולפורט”
- Irish: “Coalport”
- Japanese: “コールポート”
- Polish: “Coalport”
- Welsh: “Coalport”
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Highlights include Coalport Village Hall and Naomi Matthews Memorial Garden.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Coalport”. Photo: Geoff Pick, CC BY-SA 2.0.