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The site of the first cast-iron bridge, spanning the River Severn at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England, now a British national monument and considered the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. Abraham Darby pioneered the smelting of iron with coke here in 1709 and the bridge was by Thomas Pritchard and erected by John Wilkinson and Abraham Darby in 1777-1779.

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