An old trackway behind Ketley Hall

Image: © Richard Law Taken: 1 Aug 2021

Old maps aren't clear as to the purpose (or even the existence) of this track, which drops down from south to north in the general direction of the road named Red Lees. Part way down it, there's some crumbling masonry on either side, which may be the disintegrating remains of a bridge carrying an 18th century mining tramway from east-west; the whole area was heavily mined for coal, limestone and some poor iron ore around that time. Most of the surface features, e.g. spoil heaps, which were mapped around 1900 in the area have now been re-landscaped or flattened during the 1960s/70s when the whole area was being built up as Telford New Town, so it's hard to find clear evidence of just what was what nowadays.

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