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Early telford history
Sunnycroft near Wellington
Early settlement in the area was thought to be on the land that sloped
up from the Weald Moors (an area north of the town centre) towards the
line along which the Roman Watling Street was built. Farmland
surrounded three large estates in the tenth century, namely Wellington,
Wrockwardine and Lilleshall.[3]
From the 13th century there was urban development in Wellington and
Madeley, where Wenlock Priory founded a new town. Six monastic houses,
founded in the 11th and 12th centuries, had large interests in the
area's economic growth. They collectively acquired almost half of the
area, and profited from coal and ironstone mines and iron smithies on
their estates.[3]
[edit]Modern history
The Beatties department store at the west end of Telford Shopping
Centre, which was renamed House of Fraser in early 2007.
Telford Plaza in Telford Town Centre.
The New Town was first designated on 16 January 1963 as Dawley New
Town, covering 9,100 acres (37 km²) of Dawley, Wenlock,
Oakengates, Wellington Rural District and Shifnal Rural District.[4]
Development started, guided by the Dawley New Town Development
Corporation, with the first homes on the new Sutton Hill housing estate
being occupied in 1967. ( Loft conversion in Telford area )
The Minister proposed an extension of 12,000 acres (49 km²) in
1968 (taking in the historic area of Ironbridge Gorge), which saw
objections and a public inquiry take place. The Dawley New Town
(Designation) Amendment (Telford) Order was made on 29 November 1968,
extending the New Town area by 10,143 acres (41 km²) of "land
lying within the urban districts of Oakengates and Wellington and the
rural districts of Shifnal and Wellington".[5] This Order also renamed
the new town Telford, after the Scottish-born civil engineer Thomas
Telford who, in 1787, became Surveyor of Public Works for Shropshire.
Other suggested names at the time were Dawelloak and Wrekin Forest City.
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Most of the infrastructure was constructed from the late 1960s and
throughout the 1970s with the major housing and commercial development
occurring over three decades up to the early 1990s when the Development
Corporation was wound up to be replaced by Commission for the New
Towns, later English Partnerships, and most of the property was handed
over to the then Wrekin District Council. In 1983, after fierce
opposition and three public enquiries[citation needed], the M54
motorway was completed, connecting the town to the M6 and thence the
rest of the UK's motorway network. Other major roads are the A5, A518
and A442, which is commonly known as the Eastern Primary or EP, and is
officially branded Queensway. ( Cost Price Of Loft
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Many of the new town's residents were originally from the West Midlands
conurbation, which includes Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Dudley and
Walsall. The vast majority of the council house tenants in Telford were
rehoused from inner city slums in Birmingham. Some controversy and bad
feeling still exists in some communities as a result of what some saw
as the influx of those from the city slums. The name "overspill" was
often used as a derogatory term for these residents. Some individuals
still refuse to put Telofrd in their address, instead using the
original local name (such as Wellington or Dawley).
In 2007, a £250 million regeneration plan for the town centre
was announced, which will include the pedestrianisation of the road
surrounding the shopping centre, and the creation of new
cafés, bars and shops which will lead to 1,750 new jobs.
The reason for this expansion is that the original
"centre" was only ever a shopping place with no real heart (See
Shropshire Star June 3, 2004). Since the "centre" closed early evening,
there was no nightlife at all in the area, the only major local
entertainment areas being in Oakengates and Wellington.