Donnington Wood Canal

Donnington Wood Canal
The basin at the foot of the Lilleshall incline now serves as a pond
Specifications
Locks	7 + 1 inclined plane
Status	parts still traceable
History
Date of act	Privately built
Date of first use	1767
Date closed	1904
Geography
Start point	Pave Lane
End point	Donnington Wood
Connects to	Wombridge Canal, Shropshire Canal

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Legend
Pave Lane wharf Pitchcroft Limeworks wharf Pitchcroft Lane bridges Locks (4) Little Hales Bridge Lilleshall Limeworks wharf Lilleshall Limeworks wharf Locks (3) Pitchcroft branch junction Lilleshall Branch incline Hugh's Bridge Lilleshall Abbey Abbey Bridge, Lilyhurst Road Muxton golf course Old Lodge basin Old Lodge furnaces tramway bridge Coal and ironstone mines tramway bridge wharf tramway and road bridge Shropshire Canal junction wharf Wombridge Canal

The Donnington Wood Canal was a 5.5-mile (8.9 km) private canal in East Shropshire, England, which ran from coal pits owned by Earl Gower at Donnington Wood to Pave Lane on the Wolverhampton to Newport Turnpike Road. It was completed in about 1767 and abandoned in 1904. The canal was part of a larger network of tub-boat canals, which were used for the transport of raw materials, particularly coal, limestone and ironstone, from the locations where they were mined to furnaces where the iron ore was processed. The canal was connected to the Wombridge Canal and the Shropshire Canal.