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The Coalbrookdale Inn

1834 | A pub for the workers of the Dale

The Coalbrookdale Inn began trading in 1834.

And you couldn't ask for a more historically loaded location.

This was Coalbrookdale, the valley associated with the Darbys and the development of coke-smelted iron, surrounded by generations of ironworkers, miners, engineers, craftsmen and their families.

The pub became part of that working community.

And remarkably, much of its traditional pub character survived.

Rather than being opened out into one enormous modern bar, it retained the multi-room feel associated with an older public house.

The furnaces have gone quiet.

The workers' houses changed.

The Coalbrookdale Inn remains.

How we know this date

  • TraditionCAMRA and local sources consistently give 1834 as the year the Coalbrookdale Inn began trading.Source: CAMRA and local sources
  • DocumentedThe pub is Grade II listed, confirming the survival of its historic fabric opposite the Museum of Iron.Source: Historic England list entry 1206512

This is a working date. If you have a document or photograph that changes it, we'd genuinely like to see it.

The Coalbrookdale Inn, opposite the Museum of Iron.
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We're still researching this pub. Old photographs, licences, newspaper cuttings, brewery documents or family memories all help — and if you have evidence that changes our date, we'd genuinely like to see it.

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