The Donnington Wood tub boat canal, near Telford

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Andy Tidy starts his "Lockdown Legacy" series of Canal Hunter videos as he explores the lost line of the 5.5 mile Donnington Wood Canal, which connected Earl Gower's collieries at Wrockwardine Wood with his limestone quarry at Lilleshall and to the outside market at Pave Lane.
This was an early tub boat canal with striking similarities to the Duke of Bridgewater's more famous canal near Manchester, and introduces the use of inclined planes to the British canal scene.

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@hypermap 3 года назад

Thank you for all your hard work researching n taking photos - very interesting n informative - amazing hidden history placed into context

@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it Vincent.

@davidjones8680 3 года назад

A fabulous episode, can't wait to see more on this very interesting canal.

@christophernorton33 Год назад

Very interesting.Andy .I lived in Telford for a short time. It's a fascinating place with an amazing industrial history. Looking forward to the follow-up video.👍😃

@simoncroft9792 Год назад

Thanks for this video and all the others Andy. Great to explore these canals vicariously, cannot do this myself as the nearest canal is far away!

@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@jsim9042 6 месяцев назад

Fascinating.

@Jeff034 4 года назад

thank you!

@AuntieSullivan 4 года назад

Fascinating! Thank you.

@grahamhall8249 4 года назад

Great vid Andy, the info you manage to get hold of is so informative. I never knew this existed. I got one for you though, I heard a long time ago that the coalfields near Arbury Hall near Nuneaton were joined to the Coventry canal. Do you think you may be able to look into it one day? Of course, we've all got to wait till we can go out and about again.

@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 4 года назад

Hi Graham - That little network would be a fascinating one to explore / unpick - also the associated Griff arm off the Coventry Canal. Good shout and local too. I wont forget that idea.......... Thanks

@MsVanorak 4 года назад

Thank you. I've just discovered 'side by side' websites and got into the maze of the Telford area coal mines and canals as I used to lurk about the Granville nature reserve in between (van driving) jobs and was curious to know the extent of it. It's nice to see from the aerial view there are lines and sweeqing curves of greenery even amongst the new factories of the Hortonwood Industrial Estate although Trench Lock has been obliterated by a traffic island.

@carolehawkins2576 4 года назад

thank you for your lovely canal videos they are very interesting i like to get to now about thinks hope to meet you on a canal journey

@lizcallan2187 4 года назад

that was very interesting. I cannot wait for the next video

@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 4 года назад

Welcome to Canal Hunter Liz

@paulbearman4653 3 года назад

Very interesting, we have tub boat canals here in North Devon/Cornwall so of particular interest to me. Thank you.

@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 3 года назад

There was a lot of shared knowledge between the areas.

@jonnyaddles Год назад

My grandad learned to swim in the Donnington Wood canal

@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 10 месяцев назад

Not many bits with water in today!

@michaelward8868 4 года назад

Andy, love your entire series. Just a couple of errors:- 1. The remains of the blast furnaces are in fact the old stables/ gunpowder store for the mines. It would appear that before the Old Lodge area was developed the horses (of which there must have been many) were grazed in this area. 2. The pumping house is in fact the Winding House for the Muxton Bridge mines. ThePumping House is a few yards down the canal towards Lilleshall.

@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 4 года назад

Thanks Michael - Its great to build on my knowledge of such an interesting area.

@andrewhassall5777 3 года назад

Hi nice video. Have you run across a canal near red lake? I grew up in that area and as a boy we played in the remains of a Canal, some of it still had water in it back then. Most of it was destroyed when they changed all the roads around in the 70’s. But I think there is a bit of it left in the coppice of woods at the top of red lake. I would love to know more about this and what it was used for. Thanks Andrew

@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 3 года назад

I think thats the Ketley Branch which linked the minerals at Oakengates to William Reynolds ironworks at the foot of the Ketley Inclined plane.

@keanestar07 4 года назад

There was an incline plane by the Blue pig pub in Trench and there was a canal lock at where the Trench Lock juction is. around Hortonwood there's still remains of the canal

@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 4 года назад

There are quite a lot of photos of Trench incline because it was the last operational structure in the UK - and will feature in two weeks time. In next weeks episode I build a model of the Ketley Incline which was essentially the same as Trench.

@keanestar07 4 года назад

@@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 Also there was a canal that went past the old mill at Wrockwardine Wood

@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 4 года назад

@@keanestar07 Thats the end of what was the Wombridge Canal which was later sold to the Shropshire Canal Co to join the Donnington Wood to Shrewsbury via Tranch Incline. Its a fascinating and under rated area.

@keanestar07 4 года назад

@@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 I'm from that area its fascinating theres all that history in the area. there used to be a farm where the ambulance station is

@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 4 года назад

@@keanestar07 I will do my best to get the history right in the series of videos I am making all the way to Ironbridge and Shrewsbury!

@robinlong6477 4 года назад

Once again Andy, many thanks. Looking forward to you climbing through the the moored boaters to reach the Coventry! The Plough awaits (if open... ). Would you consider a unit on the Lapal Canal? I've not seen anything with narrative included. Apologies if you've done something already, but if so, I couldn't find it. 🤓🇨🇦

@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 4 года назад

The Lapal section will feature in series 4, hopefully next winter.

@alancrosby8123 4 года назад

I often drive my truck through Telford, and am always on the look out for evidence of the old cuts. Sadly, there is very little evidence that they ever existed from my view from the cab!

@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 4 года назад

They are really indistinct fingerprints from the road Alan. You have to know where to look and then get out on foot. One of the traces I like best is at the bottom end of Wonderland, where a concrete dinosaur stands in the trough of the canal bed.

@jhareng 3 года назад

If you turn right at Trench on A518 at speed camera you will have crossed the old cut after the railway bridge where theres now a built up mound of grass as of 2019's last Highways road cock up. Continues along right side A518, woodland turning in to horse grazing. Can see the green vent at is passes Horton Wood to MOD Donnington where it disappears. If turn left at Trench Lock, theres still water behind Rontec leading past GKN, RBSL called Shropshire Union Canal.

@denesydenham1627 4 года назад

Hello Andy why did they need to ventilate the old canal bed ?

@andrewhassall5777 3 года назад

Do you know if any maps are available.?

@lifeat2.3milesanhour57 3 года назад

The best source are the side by side maps on the National Library of scotland website. I used the paper alternatives of the old OS maps produced at the Godfrey Editions.