The Cinderloo Trail

On 23rd March, Cinderloo1821 was delighted to host members of the Battlefields Trust for a walk around the outskirts of Telford investigating historical evidence that might point to where the battle of Cinderloo took place.

James Parker of the Battlefields Trust

A view over Colliers Row, Old Park, kindly taken by Ed Thomas from the Wrekin Housing Trust

There’s a great review of the walk on Pete Jackson’s blog here.

Here is a selection of photos from the walk:

The pool in Old Park

Landscape near the Forge Retail Park suggestive of the old slag mounds

Giant Horsetail – a prehistoric survivor that your really don’t want in your garden

In 1820, Thomas Telford, County Surveyor of Shropshire, was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a position held for 14 years until his death

Fossilised trees

Gathering at the Cinderloo Bridge

“Oh the Ironmasters, they always get their way!”

Evidence of iron from the Spout Pitmound

A tree that was once left marooned surrounded by open cast mining in the 1970s