Coalbrookdale by Night, Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1801. Coalbrookdale is a village in the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, England, containing a settlement of great significance in the history of iron ore smelting. This is where iron ore was first smelted by Abraham Darby.

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Coalbrookdale by Night, Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1801. Coalbrookdale is a village in the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, England, containing a settlement of great significance in the history of iron ore smelting. This is where iron ore was first smelted by Abraham Darby.

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