COALPORT FOUNDRY/WORKS FOOT BRIDGE N52o 37’ 9.2” W 2o 27’ 6.4”
Between Coalbrookdale and Coalport, a number of the old mills and foundries have been restored for reuse as craft centers, museums, and workshops. This complex with the charming footbridge over the canal is now a glass works and museum. It is especially nice to know that the Darby family’s original Coalbrookdale foundry where the first Abraham Darby discovered in 1709 how to smelt iron using coke instead of charcoal and where many of our old iron bridges were cast is now still thriving as an iron works but under the ownership of the Aga Stove company.