Ironbridge
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,600 residents
- Description: village in Shropshire, England
- Also known as: “Ironbridge, Shropshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum of the Gorge and Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron.
Museum of the Gorge
Museum
Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Museum of the Gorge, originally the Severn Warehouse, is one of the ten museums of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. It portrays the history of the Ironbridge Gorge and the surrounding area of Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England.
Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron
Museum
Photo: Helen Simonsson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron is one of ten Ironbridge Gorge Museums administered by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. 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.
Enginuity
Museum
Enginuity is an interactive design and technology centre in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England. It is the newest of the ten museums operated by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust and was opened in 2002.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Broseley and Madeley.
Broseley
Town
Photo: Mike White, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Broseley is a market town in Shropshire, England, with a population of 4,929 at the 2011 Census and an estimate of 5,022 in 2019. The River Severn flows to its north and east.
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.
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.
Ironbridge
- Category: locality
- Location: The Gorge, Telford and Wrekin, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.6281° or 52° 37′ 41″ northLongitude
-2.4822° or 2° 28′ 56″ westPopulation
1,600Elevation
233 feet (71 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB IBGOpen location code
9C4VJGH9+74OpenStreetMap ID
node 60909336OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Ironbridge” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Ironbridge”
- Bulgarian: “Иронбридге”
- Cebuano: “Ironbridge”
- Chinese: “艾恩布里奇”
- Chinese: “鐵橋鎮”
- Dutch: “Ironbridge”
- French: “Ironbridge”
- German: “Ironbridge Gorge”
- German: “Ironbridge”
- German: “Severn Gorge”
- Hebrew: “איירונברידג‘”
- Hebrew: “איירונברידג’”
- Irish: “Ironbridge”
- Italian: “Ironbridge”
- Japanese: “アイアンブリッジ (イングランド)”
- Japanese: “アイアンブリッジ”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ironbridge”
- Persian: “آیرونبریج”
- Polish: “Ironbridge”
- Swedish: “Ironbridge”
- Ukrainian: “Айронбридж”
- Volapük: “Ironbridge”
- Welsh: “Ironbridge”
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