Blue Plaque: James Watt Steam Engine
Blue Plaque: James Watt Steam Engine is a memorial in Sandwell, England. Blue Plaque: James Watt Steam Engine is situated nearby to Black Country Millennium Forest, as well as near the church Mount Horeb.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tipton railway station and Coseley railway station.
Tipton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tipton railway station is located in the industrial town of Tipton in the borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England and was known as Tipton Owen Street until 1968. Tipton railway station is situated 3,200 feet southeast of Blue Plaque: James Watt Steam Engine.
Coseley railway station
Railway station
Photo: Gordon Griffiths, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coseley railway station serves the village of Coseley and the Deepfields area in the West Midlands County, England. It is situated on the Rugby-Birmingham-Stafford branch of the West Coast Main Line. Coseley railway station is situated 3,900 feet northwest of Blue Plaque: James Watt Steam Engine.
Workhouse
Memorial
In Britain and Ireland, a workhouse was a total institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered accommodation and employment. Workhouse is situated 1 mile southeast of Blue Plaque: James Watt Steam Engine.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tipton and Coseley.
Tipton
Town
Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.
Sandwell is a metropolitan borough that spans a densely populated part of the West Midlands, including Bearwood, Blackheath, Cradley Heath, Oldbury, Rowley Regis, Smethwick, Tipton, Tividale, Wednesbury, West Bromwich.
Coseley
Town
Photo: Whatlep, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coseley is a village in the Dudley district, in the county of the West Midlands, England. It is situated three miles north of Dudley itself, on the border with Wolverhampton and Sandwell. It falls within the Tipton and Wednesbury parliamentary constituency.
Priory Estate
Quarter
The Priory Estate is a housing estate in Dudley, West Midlands, England, which has largely been developed since 1929.
Blue Plaque: James Watt Steam Engine
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “Near this spot in 1776 the first commercial steam engine to design of James Watt 1736-1819 was erected by Boulton and Watt to pump water from Bloomfield Colliery.”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Sandwell, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.53778° or 52° 32′ 16″ northLongitude
-2.07352° or 2° 4′ 25″ westInception
March 13th, 2019Open location code
9C4VGWQG+4HOpenStreetMap ID
node 12424548509OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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Highlights include Black Country Millennium Forest and Black Country Millennium Forest.
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