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A History of the County of Shropshire
… and 1756 large numbers of Broseley bricks were used at Horsehay in blast-furnace construction. By the later 18th …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the Second World War. From 1955 Coalmoor Refractories (Horsehay) Ltd. and its subsidiary Prestage & Broseley …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… east to west; it abounds in coal and ironstone, and at Horsehay are the well-known and very extensive iron-works of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… townships, but in Little Dawley relief is more marked. Horsehay dingle bisects the township, and the parish's … the parish was underlain by the Coal Measures. Only in the Horsehay and Little Dawley areas, where Lower Carboniferous … town, to which the outlying industrial communities at Horsehay, Dawley Bank, Old Park, Dark Lane, and Hinkshay …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… manor house'. 17 In 1844 Little Dawley township and the Horsehay area were constituted a separate parish, 18 and the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… made by improving a road that followed parts of the former Horsehay-Coalbrookdale waggonway. 22 The stretch along … at Lawley. 24 Brandlee Lane, the road from Dawley Green to Horsehay, was described in 1780 as the road to Much Wenlock. … by the Coalbrookdale Co., who put up a turnpike gate at Horsehay, but it was transferred to the parish in 1840. 26 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… woodland may have covered most of the township west of Horsehay dingle in the Middle Ages. 91 The name Pawn … 93 possibly into Frame wood (or Frame rough), a wood near Horsehay in Great Dawley, recorded in 1573 and grubbed up c. … a number of hays, large enclosures probably for stock. Horsehay, Smeeth hay, Dawley hay, and Charles hay lay along …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wesleyan schools were opened at Little Dawley in 1813 and Horsehay in 1819; the Revivalist Methodists opened a school … by the Coalbrookdale Co. in a room over the stables at Horsehay Farm in 1843. The school moved to Pool Hill c. 1846 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 'Charles Hall' (probably near Dawley Bank), Hinkshay, and Horsehay, 54 where the surviving farmhouse is partly … iron masters on their own property. The earliest were at Horsehay and Old Park. Old Row, Horsehay, was a terrace of twenty-five 1½-storeyed brick …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in Dawley, acquired extensive estates in the parish. The Horsehay estate (121 a.), bought from Robert Slaney c. 1815, …