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    1. Re: [ENG-SHROP] Road Barrow to Brossley
    2. Ken Knott
    3. There is a bit of info at, http://www.broseley.org.uk/Docs/the%20new%20willey%20ironworks.htm Which gives a little about the Round House. "The crenellated Round House was clearly built as an estate lodge, and the small buildings shown nearby on the O.S. map of 1882, and of which traces still remain, would have been keepers' kennels, pigsties and the like. The Round House pre-dates the coach road, as the ground round it has obviously been raised to take this road. It is unlikely that the road to the hall from this lodge followed the same route as the coach road, since before the very high embankment in front of Wilkinson House was built the climb out of the valley there would have been very steep. The estate road is more likely to have followed an easier route to the right. The house is shown as a 'Toll House' on the 1827 and 1840 maps, and it may be that the coach road to Bridgnorth via Dean Corner and Wiley crossed the valley at this point to enable it to be used as a toll house." Hope it's of some help Ken Manchester > As you travel from Barrow towards Brossley there is the site of the Willey > Iron Works, Nearby there is a house now called 'The Round House'. Is this > an old toll house? Which toll road was it on? > If it was a tole road did it go up towards Brossley (B4376) or did it > continue East to join the B4373?

    07/09/2006 01:35:19