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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Dawley Churches CHURCHES. There were medieval chapels at Great Dawley and Malinslee and perhaps at Little Dawley. Only the first, which had come to be considered a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Dawley Communications COMMUNICATIONS. Great Dawley was crossed from north-west to south-east by the main … turnpiked 1764. 17 In 1752 the road entered the parish at Dawley Bank and ran by Dawley Green Lane (later Bank Road and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Dawley Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Agriculture. The element leah, in the township names Dawley and Malinslee and in the minor names Brandlee, … in an area of late-surviving woodland. 82 In Little Dawley the existence of two Domesday bordars with a share in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Dawley Education EDUCATION. Richard Wilding, curate of Daw … rector of Stirchley 1715-58, probably held schools in Dawley 45 and Richard Poyner was recorded as a schoolmaster … 1806. 49 Other Wesleyan schools were opened at Little Dawley in 1813 and Horsehay in 1819; the Revivalist …
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 serf, a villein, and two bordars in Little Dawley. 42 Sixteen inhabitants of the parish were assessed to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Dawley Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Great Dawley owed suit from 1310 or earlier 45 to the leet court of … there were recorded from 1478 until 1851. 46 Little Dawley and Malinslee made suit to Bradford hundred court in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Dawley Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. The manor of GREAT DAWLEY, sometimes styled Dawley Pantulf, 90 was considered a member of Wellington …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Dawley Public services PUBLIC SERVICES. The Dawley Gas Co., formed in 1848, 89 built a works at the … street lighting in the central built-up area around Dawley Green, the capital cost having been raised by …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Dawley Roman Catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM. Papist families … no evidence of a Roman Catholic community of any size in Dawley until the 20th century. In 1958 the Town Hall was used … the Shifnal parish priest, was then attended by c. 100. 36 Dawley was created a separate parish in 1978 37 and by 1980 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Dawley Social and cultural activities SOCIAL AND CULTURAL … the New Wicket near St. Leonard's church), the Dun Cow at Dawley Green, and the Finger on the Wellington-Worcester … populous central part of the parish. There were three at Dawley Bank and at least four at Dawley Green in 1817. 34 …