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| Ketley | |
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 Ketley | |
  KetleyLocation within Shropshire | |
| OS grid reference | SJ676109 |
| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Telford |
| Postcode district | TF1 |
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Ketley is a large village and civil parish in the borough of Telford and Wrekin of Shropshire, England. It is located between the outlying towns of Oakengates, Telford and Wellington.
Residential development
East Ketley is currently being re-developed as part of the Telford Millennium Community, part of the Millennium Communities Programme. It will consist of around 750 new homes and some live/work units, a new primary school, some small offices and retail and leisure services in a masterplan designed by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands.
The site originally consisted of just a small terrace of Victorian houses amid old mineshafts, colliery spoil, a golf course (which was later used as a driving range) and playing fields. Most of the site has been left fallow for many years and some areas have become locally important habitats for wildlife.
Industrial development
Ketley was formerly the home of Ketley Ironworks. William Reynolds (the ironmaster of the works in the late 18th century) undertook the construction of three tub boat canals: the Wombridge Canal, the Ketley Canal and the Shropshire Canal with the first successful inclined planes in Great Britain. He lived at Ketley Hall, a grade II listed building which has now been converted into three separate dwellings. A small stretch of the Ketley Canal still survives and can be seen within Ketley Paddock Mound, a nature reserve and former colliery spoil tip.
The Shropshire Star was published in Ketley until July 2022, when the company moved to an office in Stafford Park.
Notable people
- William Reynolds (1758-1803), born at Ketley Bank House, ironmaster.
- Samuel Parkes Cadman (1864-1936), born at Ketley, later an American Christian radio broadcaster.
- Kuldip Singh Sahota, Baron Sahota (born 1951), Labour local politician, lives in Ketley.
See also
References
- Sharman, David. "Shropshire Star moves from Ketley to new Telford office - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage". HoldtheFrontPage. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- Smith, Charlotte Fell (1896). "Reynolds, Richard (1735-1816)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 48. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 69–71. Article primarily on his father.
- "From factory floor to the floor of the House of Lords". Shropshire Star. 15 November 2022. p. 2.Report by Sue Austin.
External links
- news on the Telford Millennium Village
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070930203210/http://freewebs.com/ketleybb/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080126224237/http://fentyler.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rss.xml
- Information and news about Ketley Parish in Telford
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