Lee Dingle Bridge

The Lee Dingle Bridge is a wrought iron truss bridge across the Lee Dingle in Ironbridge, Shropshire. The bridge is a Grade II listed building. It is derelict and has had no deck since the 1960s.

History

The bridge was built to carry the plateway which brought coal from the Madeley Colliery to the Blists Hill furnaces. It replaced a timber trestle viaduct built when the London and North Western Railway's Coalport branch line was constructed. On the far side of the bridge from Blists Hill was an inclined plane known as Bagley's Wind, which still survives in part as a brick pathway.

Current status

The bridge forms part of the Blists Hill living museum. Most buildings there are reconstructions but blast furnaces, a mine, a brick and tile works and the Lee Dingle Bridge are original to the location.