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 RE: Early Tramroads in East Shropshire (Telford) again - Part 10
Part 10 - An overview of the East Shropshire Area's Tramroad Network

I have been asked to give a talk at one of the meetings of the Friends of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust about the tramroads/tramways in East Shropshire. I have begun preparation and drafted some notes which may be of interest to others.

R.F. Savage and L.D.W. Smith wrote a thesis entitled, The Waggon-ways and Plate-ways of East Shropshire in 1965. Their work was well- timed as it recorded circumstances existing in the years before the development company began major work to rehabilitate the area and many industrial features were lost.

I have begun the process of walking all of the old tramroad routes identified by Savage and Smith.

The link gives some idea of the work that Savage and Smith undertook and a link to the detailed notes which give an overview of the tramroads/tramways of the area.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/01/2...of...ad-network