Ketley is a large village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the borough of

Telford and Wrekin Telford and Wrekin is a Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough and unitary authority in Shropshire, England. In 1974, a non-metropolitan district of Shropshire was created called the Wrekin, named after The Wrekin, a prominent hill to the ...

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. It is located between the outlying towns of

Oakengates Oakengates is a historic market town and civil parish in the borough of Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England. The town's parish population was recorded as 8,517 in the 2001 census. Etymology The name is not derived from "oak" or "gates" b ...

Telford Telford () is a town in the Telford and Wrekin borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in Shropshire, England. The wider borough covers the town, its suburbs and surrounding towns and villages. The town is close to the county's eastern b ...

and

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Residential development

East Ketley is currently being re-developed as part of the

Telford Millennium Community 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, Shropshire, Wellington. Residential development East Ketle ...

, part of the

Millennium Communities Programme The Millennium Communities Programme (or Millennium Villages initiative), is an English Partnerships initiative to construct 7 new 'villages' that are intended to 'set the standard for 21st Century living, and to serve as a model for the creation ...

. 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

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. 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 Ketley Ironworks was an ironworks in Ketley, in Shropshire, England. Established in 1756, it was one of the largest ironworks in Britain during its ownership by William Reynolds and his brother Joseph. The site's location is

. William Reynolds (the ironmaster of the works in the late 18th century) undertook the construction of three tub boat canals: the

Wombridge Canal The Wombridge Canal was a tub-boat canal in Shropshire, England, built to carry coal and iron ore from mines in the area to the furnaces where the iron was extracted. It opened in 1788, and parts of it were taken over by the Shrewsbury Canal Com ...

, the

Ketley Canal The Ketley Canal was a tub boat canal that ran for about from Oakengates to Ketley works in Shropshire, England. The canal was built about 1788 and featured the first inclined plane in Britain. The main cargo of the canal was coal and ironst ...

and the

Shropshire Canal The Shropshire Canal was a tub boat canal built to supply coal, ore and limestone to the industrial region of east Shropshire, England, that adjoined the River Severn at Coalbrookdale. It ran from a junction with the Donnington Wood Canal asce ...

with the first successful

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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 A spoil tip (also called a boney pile, culm bank, gob pile, waste tip or bing) is a pile built of accumulated ''spoil'' – waste material removed during mining. Spoil tips are not formed of slag, but in some areas, such as England and Wales, ...

. The ''

Shropshire Star The ''Shropshire Star'' is an English regional newspaper and reputedly the twelfth biggest-selling regional newspaper in the UK. It is based at Grosvenor House, Telford, where it covers the whole of Shropshire plus parts of Herefordshire, Worces ...

'' 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.Article primarily on his father. * Samuel Parkes Cadman (1864-1936), born at Ketley, later an American

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broadcaster. *

Kuldip Singh Sahota, Baron Sahota Kuldip Singh Sahota, Baron Sahota (born 2 May 1951), is a British Labour Party politician and life peer. Sahota was born in India of Sikh Punjabi heritage, the son of a foundry worker who emigrated to England in 1957; he joined his father in ...

(born 1951), Labour local politician, lives in Ketley.Report by Sue Austin.

References

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
Millennium Communities Programme Civil parishes in Shropshire Ketley {{Shropshire-geo-stub

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Notable people

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