Hampton Loade
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Hampton Loade is a village in Shropshire, England along the Severn Valley. It is situated on the east bank of the River Severn at grid reference SO747864, and is notable for its unusual current-operated chain ferry to the hamlet of Hampton on the west bank that gives it its name - 'Loade' is derived from lode, an old English word for ferry. Bridgnorth is its post town, 4 miles due north and is in Bridgnorth district council. Hampton Loade is in the Ludlow parliamentary constituency.
A Severn Valley Railway station serves the hamlet of Hampton. [1]
There is an unusual bridge close to Hampton Loade: a small roadway is suspended below two large waterpipe arches[2]
[edit] Further reading
- Hampton Loade: Village and Ferry
- Press Release - Hampton Loade Ferry 27 April 2004
- Hamton Loade Ferry complete BBC January, 2004
- Panoramas Views: Ferry across the Severn BBC
[edit] Footnotes
| River Severn, UK | edit | |
| Counties: Montgomeryshire | Shropshire | Worcestershire | Gloucestershire | Flows into: Bristol Channel Towns: Llanidloes | Newtown | Welshpool | Shrewsbury | Ironbridge | Bridgnorth | Bewdley Major tributaries: Rea Brook | River Perry | River Tern | River Vyrnwy | River Stour | River Teme | Upper Avon | Lower Avon | River Wye Linked canals: Staffordshire and Worcestershire | Birmingham and Worcester | Droitwich Major crossings: Welsh Bridge | English Bridge | The Iron Bridge | Severn Bridge | Severn Tunnel | Second Severn Crossing |
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| Longest UK rivers: 1. Severn 2. Thames 3. Trent 4. Aire 5. Great Ouse 6. Wye 7. Tay 8. Spey 9. Nene 10. Clyde 11. Tweed 12. Eden | ||
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| Settlements on the River Severn between Ironbridge and Bewdley (heading downstream) | edit | |
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Ironbridge | Jackfield | Coalport | Bridgnorth | Quatford | Quatt | Hampton & Hampton Loade (chain ferry) | Highley | Alveley | Upper Arley | Bewdley |
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