Traditional county: Shropshire · Region: West Midlands
Explore Lower Forge, Shropshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Lower Forge map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Lower Forge, Shropshire, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
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| Place | Lower Forge |
| Traditional County | Shropshire |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.503630 |
| Longitude | -2.394716 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Lower Forge maintains a quiet, industrial dignity along the banks of the Severn, where the river’s slow, muscular progress dictates the pace of the surrounding countryside. It lies 2.5 miles south-south-east of Bridgnorth (from Bridgnorth: bearing 155°T, OS grid SO 733 895), and is situated south-east of Eardington village. The landscape here retains the echoes of iron-working, a memory preserved in the heavy, dark silt that lines the riverbed near the former forge sites. To the north-east, the elevation of Camp Hill rises above the canopy, watching over the low-lying hollows where the air often hangs thick and cool with morning mist. A short distance to the east, the expansive waters of Dudmaston Big Pool reflect the sky with a mirror-like clarity, offering a stark contrast to the hidden, shaded pockets of the valley. Lower Forge sits in a corridor of deep, verdant growth, where the thickets are dense enough to swallow the sound of the modern world. The architecture of the surrounding terrain is defined by these sudden transitions between open, shimmering water and the enclosed, moss-heavy woodland. Time in Lower Forge seems to move not in hours, but in the gradual siltation of the stream beds and the slow, seasonal shifts of the deciduous leaves.
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Explore Lower Forge, Shropshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 52.503630, -2.394716. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |