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Woodlands Walk, Beech Road, TELFORD, TF8 7BG

A rather inaccessible benchmark on the gable wall of the house; originally levelled at 131.549m above Ordnance Datum Newlyn.

Slightly more than a year after Image was taken, pretty much all the conversion of the former Lincoln Grange (formerly the Madeley Valley Union Workhouse) has now been completed, and most of the houses are occupied. Seen here is the eastern wing of former wards, which lie behind the red skips in the photo above; and shows the standard to which the conversion has been done. A full description of the buildings and their history is at https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101391962-lincoln-grange-formerly-madeley-union-workhouse-the-gorge#.XqgpXWhKjcs & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1391962 & http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Madeley/

Conversion to residential work at the former Lincoln Grange nursing home is well underway, turning the one-time Beeches Hospital and Madeley Union workhouse into a series of apartments and homes. The whole building was give a Grade II listing https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101391962-lincoln-grange-formerly-madeley-union-workhouse-the-gorge#.XJM-_Cj7RPY in 2007, and is thought to be the country's first 'pavilion-plan' workhouse, built in the early 1870s. The 1881 census records a Master & Matron, plus one nurse, who looked after 112 residents aged between 20 and their early 80s.

Lincoln Grange was most recently a nursing home, but prior to that had been the Beeches Hospital since the 1930s, and was built originally in the mid 1870s as the Madeley Union Workhouse. It's currently being converted to residential use. The site is quite extensive, and is subject to a Grade II listing https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101391962-lincoln-grange-formerly-madeley-union-workhouse-the-gorge#.XI65hCj7TIU which was granted in 2007. It was built to replace the nearby Image, which was seriously overcrowded, and by 1881 housed a total of 112 male & female residents, aged between 20 and early 80s, mostly described as 'paupers', along with a few of their young offspring. Many were locals, hailing from Madeley, Ironbridge, Bridgnorth, Broseley, Much Wenlock, Wellington, Shifnal, Shrewsbury etc, but a few came from further afield, and included one chap from Llanelli, a Jarrow man, a Yorkshireman from Harrogate and even one George Harley from Kinsale in County Cork, Ireland.

A rear view of Woodland Grange, a large buff-brick house built around 1960. It attracted a Grade II listing https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101038678-woodland-grange-the-gorge#.X20QEWhKjIU & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1038678 in 1974.

A Grade II listed building http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101374899-belmontedgmont-the-gorge#.WRvthPkrKM8 dated 1758, now known as Edgmont but previously called Belmont.

Described in their collective 1974 Grade II listing https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101207373-the-brockholes-the-gorge#.X20dAGhKjIU & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207373 as a "plain early-mid C19 cottage range". The small-paned iron casements mentioned in the listing have apparently gone now, replaced by newer casements and sashes, but the essential character of the row remains.

Originally built in 1796 by the Madeley Parish board, to house 40 poor inmates. It operated as such until the 1870s, whereupon a much larger institution was built half a mile to the northwest at what is now the Beeches nursing home. Upon closure, this place was converted to residential use, although the black plaque suggests it may have served as a brewer's malthouse at one stage. That plaque also records that one of the unfortunate miners killed in the 1864 disaster at the nearby Madeley Wood ironstone mine lived nearby http://www.ninemen.org/the-project/the-background-to-the-nine-men-of-madeley-project/

An OS cutmark on a wall on the south side of Hodgebower; originally levelled at 106.119m above Ordnance Datum Newlyn.

Situated on the corner of Madeley Road and Orchard Lane, this fine building dates from 1840, and was originally the manse to the adjacent Image which was built a couple of years earlier. It was granted a grade II listing in 1983.