Below is a map of the area in 1809, when all the tub boat canals were working. The canals are marked in blue, incline planes in red, roads in yellow, and the Severn is black with blue outline at the bottom of the map. Watling Street runs across the map in the middle, and of course Thomas Telford had not built the A5 Holyhead Road at this stage. John Wilkinson's Willey Furnaces are at the very bottom of the map, Ironbridge is not a big town, and Blist's Hill is here spelt Blisses Hill.  Oakengates is just below Wombridge, which even as late as that time was more important due to the religious significance of the former Priory.