Lightmoor

Lightmoor is a suburb in Dawley Hamlets, Telford and Wrekin, England. Lightmoor is situated nearby to the suburb Little Dawley, as well as near Woodside.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron and Darby Houses.

Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron

Museum

Photo: Helen Simonsson, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron is managed by the National Trust and is one of ten museums acquired from the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust in 2026. The museum is based in the town of Coalbrookdale in the Ironbridge Gorge, in Shropshire, England, within a World Heritage Site, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.

Darby Houses

Museum

Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Darby Houses museum is managed by the National Trust and is one of ten museums acquired from the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust in 2026. It is based in Coalbrookdale in Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, England within a World Heritage Site, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.

Enginuity

Museum

Enginuity is an interactive design and technology centre in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England. It was opened in 2002 making it the last new museum to be operated by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust before its transfer to its present owner, the National Trust, in 2026.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Coalbrookdale and Horsehay.

Coalbrookdale

Village

Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Coalbrookdale is a settlement in the Ironbridge Gorge and the Telford and Wrekin borough of Shropshire, England, of great significance in the history of iron ore smelting.

Horsehay

Suburb

Horsehay is a suburban village on the western outskirts of Dawley in the Telford and Wrekin borough of Shropshire, England. Horsehay lies in the Dawley Hamlets parish, and on the northern edge of the Ironbridge Gorge area.

Ironbridge

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

Ironbridge is a riverside village in the borough of Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England. Located on the bank of the River Severn, at the heart of the Ironbridge Gorge, it lies in the civil parish of The Gorge.

Lightmoor

Type: Suburb
Category: locality
Location: Dawley Hamlets, Telford and Wrekin, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.64581° or 52° 38′ 45″ north

Longitude

-2.47751° or 2° 28′ 39″ west

Elevation

410 feet (125 metres)

Open location code

9C4VJGWC+8X

OpenStreetMap ID

node 741131074

OpenStreetMap feature

place=suburb

GeoNames ID

13266329

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