Editing Thomas Telford (section)

==Places named after Telford==
[[File:ThomasTelfordstatue.jpg|thumb|right|Statue of Thomas Telford outside the law courts in [[Telford]], Shropshire]]

Telford is commemorated in the names of many sites:

* [[Telford]] New Town;
* [[Thomas Telford School]];<ref>{{cite news|title = GCSE: Top comprehensive schools|newspaper = Times Online|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/displayPopup/0,,10302,00.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070310210359/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/displayPopup/0,,10302,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 March 2007|access-date = 25 January 2010|first=David|last=Robertson}}</ref>
* Thomas Telford Road, Langholm, where Telford was an apprentice in his early years;
* Telford Hall, a hall of residence at [[Loughborough University]]. A plaque in his honour hangs in the hall's common room;<ref>{{Cite web|title=Telford {{!}} Accommodation {{!}} Loughborough University|url=https://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/accommodation/halls/telford/|access-date=14 February 2022|website=www.lboro.ac.uk}}</ref>
* Telford, Pennsylvania, the Borough of County Line in [[Montgomery County, Pennsylvania]] changed its name to [[Telford, Pennsylvania|Telford]] in 1857, after the [[North Pennsylvania Railroad]] Company named its new station there "Telford" in honour of Thomas Telford;<ref>{{Cite web|title=TELFORD GOT ITS NAME FROM THE RAILROAD AFTER STATION BUILT|url=https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1985-05-06-2473276-story.html|access-date=14 February 2022|website=The Morning Call|date=6 May 1985 |language=en}}</ref>
* Telford College, Shropshire;<ref>[https://www.telfordcollege.ac.uk Telford College, Telford, Shropshire]</ref>
* Telford Bridge (footbridge), in 2008, a footbridge was erected over the [[Shubenacadie Canal]] in [[Dartmouth, Nova Scotia]] and named for Telford, who made important contributions to the nineteenth-century Canadian canal;<ref>{{cite news|last1=Tattrie|first1=Jon|title=Shubenacadie Canal bridge underway|access-date=28 October 2014|url=http://metronews.ca/news/halifax/75793/shubenacadie-canal-bridge-underway/|work=Metro News|publisher=Free Daily News Group Inc.|date=17 September 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029024139/http://metronews.ca/news/halifax/75793/shubenacadie-canal-bridge-underway/|archive-date=29 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>Waterfront development Corporation [http://my-waterfront.ca/development/telford-bridge-dartmouth/?format=pdf TELFORD BRIDGE (DARTMOUTH)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028234450/http://my-waterfront.ca/development/telford-bridge-dartmouth/?format=pdf |date=28 October 2014 }}, Press Release n.d., [about 2008]</ref>
* Thomas Telford Basin, part of a residential development on the [[Ashton Canal]] in Manchester.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/media/library/11955-please-click-here-to-see-our-recommended-mooring-sites-in-manchester.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221010/https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/media/library/11955-please-click-here-to-see-our-recommended-mooring-sites-in-manchester.pdf |archive-date=10 October 2022 |url-status=live|title=Mooring sites in Manchester|publisher=[[Canal & River Trust]]|access-date=22 August 2022}}</ref>