Ironbridge Gorge

I would like to introduce about Ironbridge Gorge which is registered in World Heritage of England.
Ironbridge Gorge is very famouse and is known all over the world as the symbol of industrial revolution. It was an industrial zone where the iron making prospered in the age of British industrial revolution.
Ironbridge is a bridge of the iron was made for the first time in the world in 1779. It is located in Telford, Shropshire and there is about 50km the north west of Birmingham. The steel industry became thriving because Abraham Derby the First developed an epoch-making steel manufacture method. And the construction plan of the bridge of iron was done in this place of having produced 1/4 of the iron in Britain in 1777. The promotion post is Abraham Derby the Third who is Abraham Derby the First’s grandchild. The technology of the timbering was used for the joint of iron.
It was registered as World Heritage in 1986 and tourist all over the world has gathered there.