Broseley Pipeworks

Museum in England

The Broseley Pipeworks is one of ten Ironbridge Gorge Museums which were administered by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust until 2026, when they were transferred to the care of the National Trust. The museum is based in the market town of Broseley in the Ironbridge Gorge, in Shropshire, England within a World Heritage Site, acclaimed as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. Clay pipes were recorded being made at Broseley as early as 1590. Once the site of the most prolific clay tobacco pipe makers in Britain, the Southorn family, and exporting worldwide, the works were abandoned in the

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Type:

Museum

Coordinates:

52.62°N, 2.49°W

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