Wombridge

Wombridge (alternatively Wambridge[1]) is a former parish in the Wellington Division of the hundred of Bradford South in the Telford and Wrekin district of the county of Shropshire, England.

[citation needed] It contained the junction of the Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and Marquess of Stafford canals and through it passed Watling Street and the Great Holyhead Road.

[2][1] The Shrewsbury Canal had a double inclined plane there, with a steam engine for drawing boats upwards, extending 223 yards (204 m) for a vertical rise of 75 feet (23 m).

[d][6][7] Wombridge Parish Council had expressed their objection to the merger on the grounds that Wombridge people would be made to pay for the new sewage systems in the rest of the urban district,[14] the existing one at Oakengates being either ineffective or outright non-existent in parts of the parish[7] and the one at Lilleshall using open ditches that passed through older housing.

[27][28] The coal seams worked were known in local miner's jargon as the "Chance", "Clunch", "Flint", "Little Flint", "Foot", "Fungus", "Randle", "Top", "Two-foot", and "Three-quarter" seams; several variously extending to Oakengates, Donnington, Dawley, Malin's Lee, Madeley, and Amies (near Broseley).

[29] In 1895 the colliery was registered under the Coal Mines Regulation Act as owned by Hopely Bros of Wombridge, with pits at the Rose and Crown, the Round House, and the Water Engine.

[30] A miner named William Knight died there from suffocation by natural gas in an old shaft that was in the process of being closed, on 1896-07-01.