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| In the late Victorian era Broseley suffered a decline and during redevelopment in the 1960s a lot of its fine buildings were lost with no planning regulations. Since the millennium though, Broseley looks on track to restore its heritage and image to something closely resembling that of its past. | In the late Victorian era Broseley suffered a decline and during redevelopment in the 1960s a lot of its fine buildings were lost with no planning regulations. Since the millennium though, Broseley looks on track to restore its heritage and image to something closely resembling that of its past. | ||
| == History of Inbreeding == | |||
| Several hundred years ago, before the creation of the world's first iron bridge, Broseley was a very desolate place and stranded from the rest of Shropshire, due to the fact that it is on top of a hill and would therefore have been hard to reach until comparitively modern times. People in neighbouring settlements would avoid the town, cutting through Ironbridge or Much Wenlock, and people in Broseley had a highly self-sufficient society, with the coal mining creating jobs, and a flourishing town centre. This meant that new families very rarely joined the population, leaving the Broseley inhabitants with a problem - breeding. The remote location of Broseley lead the people to incest, something which has become a rather infamous memory of the small Shropshire town. The Birch Meadow area of Broseley is where one would have been most likely to stumble across one of these repulsive bumpkins, noted for their overbites and flaky skin, amongst other physical deformities. Of course, not every resident was inbred or committed incest, the inbreeding of some of the locals would have been a rather touchy subject and not talked about much by the non-inbred residents. | |||
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Human settlement in England| Broseley | |
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| Population | 4,912 |
| OS grid reference | SJ676015 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BROSELEY |
| Postcode district | TF12 |
| Dialling code | 01952 |
| Police | West Mercia |
| Fire | Shropshire |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
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Broseley is a small town in Shropshire, England with a population of 4,912 (2001 census). The River Severn flows to the north and east of the town. The area lies within the Bridgnorth district. The settlement of Broseley appeared as far back as the Doomsday Book. The first iron bridge in the world was built in 1779 to link Broseley with Coalbrookdale and Madeley, and led to the development of Ironbridge, which is now part of a World Heritage Site.
Broseley is a settlement within the Ironbridge Gorge area and shares much of the history of its better known neighbour, Ironbridge. Ironmaster John Wilkinson lived in the town and his great rival Abraham Darby is buried here. In the industrial revolution, Broseley was a centre for ironmaking, pottery and claypipes. It is in Broseley that John Wilkinson constructed the first ever iron boat, and also in Broseley where the plans for the Iron Bridge were designed. A clay pipe factory still exists as one of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum's collection of preserved industrial heritage sites. In the past Broseley has also been heavily involved in mining and quarrying industries and the jitty-riddled lanes of Broseley Wood are attribute to the land given to miners to build their house upon- many beautiful examples of 1700s houses still exist. It is also known that the stone out of which Buildwas Abbey was built was taken from Broseley.
In the late Victorian era Broseley suffered a decline and during redevelopment in the 1960s a lot of its fine buildings were lost with no planning regulations. Since the millennium though, Broseley looks on track to restore its heritage and image to something closely resembling that of its past.
Famous residents
Hermione Baddeley, film and theatre actress, was born in Broseley
John 'Iron Mad' Wilkinson, the eighteenth century industrialist, lived in Broseley
Abraham Darby I, an industrialist of the same period, is buried in Broseley
External links
- Broseley Community site,all the latest news & events
- Broseley History Society
- Broseley Photos
- Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
- Ironbridge Gorge Visitor Guide
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