Telford is a large post‑war new town in the borough of Telford and Wrekin in Shropshire, grown from a cluster of older settlements such as Wellington and Oakengates from the 1960s onwards and named after the engineer Thomas Telford. It sits amid notable geography - the prominent hill called the Wrekin, the winding River Severn and the nearby Ironbridge Gorge, with Coalbrookdale close by, linking the town to the origins of the Industrial Revolution.
Economically it mixes light and advanced manufacturing, logistics and retail, anchored by hubs such as the Telford Centre and the Telford International Centre, while tourism to the Ironbridge area remains important. Socially the town is a patchwork of planned estates and older market‑town communities, with ongoing regeneration projects and a distinctly modern, pragmatic identity within the Shropshire landscape.