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A History of the County of Shropshire
… (and Bridgnorth) road, turnpiked 1764. 17 In 1752 the road entered the parish at Dawley Bank and ran by … Street by 1851. 20 A second major route was the Wellington-Coalbrookdale turnpike, opened c. 1817. 21 Across the … standard gauge railways reached the area in the 1850s. The Madeley branch of the Shrewsbury & Birmingham Railway (later …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Agriculture. The element leah, in the township names Dawley and Malinslee and in the minor … west to Holywell Lane; the field was described as 'over Madeley way' in 1631. 10 Piecemeal inclosure, sometimes … and ironworks led to specialization in horse rearing. The Coalbrookdale Co.'s tenant at Horsehay farm in 1759 worked a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Education EDUCATION. Richard Wilding, curate of Daw ley in 1605, and William Banks, rector of Stirchley 1715-58, … was chaired by W. G. Norris, a Quaker and manager of the Coalbrookdale Co., the first vice-chairman, and from 1894 the … xlii. Wellington Jnl. 10 Aug. 1878. J. McFall, 'Educ. in Madeley Union of Salop. in 19th Cent.' (Keele Univ. M.A. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Dawley Growth of settlement GROWTH OF SETTLEMENT. In 1086 there were 7 villeins in Great Dawley, and only a … 1½-storeyed brick houses 78 built in three stages by the Coalbrookdale Co., probably soon after the Horsehay furnaces … V.C.H. Salop. ii. 222 When the pop, of the U.D. (incl. Madeley and Stirchley from 1966) almost doubled: cf. Census …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Dawley and Malinslee made suit to Bradford hundred court in 1592, 47 the obligation originating in their membership of Leegomery manor, which made suit to … received weekly pay. 65 In 1836 Dawley became part of Madeley poor-law union, despite requests by the vestry that …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… manor and was held by Grim at some time before 1086. In 1086 Roger of Montgomery, earl of Shrewsbury by 1074, held … 1853 when most of it was sold by Robert Burton to the Coalbrookdale Co. 70 Other freeholds included that belonging … recorded in 1817. 73 During the earlier 19th century the Coalbrookdale Co. and the Botfield family, the major coal and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… services PUBLIC SERVICES. The Dawley Gas Co., formed in 1848, 89 built a works at the southern end of Chapel Street. 90 It supplied street lighting in the central built-up area around Dawley Green, the capital … which in 1865 were said to be worse than those of Madeley. 96 In the 1890s sewerage was rare and watercourses …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… is no evidence of a Roman Catholic community of any size in Dawley until the 20th century. In 1958 the Town Hall was … services: until then local Catholics had had to travel to Madeley or Wellington to church. 34 In the same year the … there or at Madeley. 54 The 1799-1801 Methodist revival in Coalbrookdale resulted in the foundation of a society at …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… CULTURAL ACTIVITIES. There were at least three alehouses in 1543 and from 1590, when they harboured illegal gaming and … Office 57 or that which met in 1835 at Lawley Bank. 58 The Coalbrookdale Co. established a medical and educational fund, … possession of the archivist, T.D.C.); J. McFall, 'Educ. in Madeley Union of Salop. in 19th Cent.' (Keele Univ. M.A. …
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds
… of this he binds himself &c. and all his tenements in Madersfeld, into whose hands soever they may come. … wards of John Thirlowe and of late of Nicholas Thirlowe, in the town of Thriploo aforesaid; also of 6 a. land in … of Haselwall, Richard Haukyn, vicar of the church of Madeley, and John Loburschaght, parson of the church of …