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A History of the County of Shropshire
… VIII Earlier corrigenda to Volumes I-III were published in Volumes II-IV. In references to pages printed in more than one column ' a', … 33, after 'Linley,' delete asterisk " " 3, line 34, after 'Madeley,' delete asterisk " " 3, line 35, for 'Lacy' read …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (All Saints) DATCHWORTH ( All Saints), a parish, in the hundred of Broadwater, union and county of Hertford, 2 … and 60 common or waste; the soil is chiefly gravel, in some parts alternated with clay. The living is a rectory, … or district, in the parish of Dawley Magna, union of Madeley, Wellington division of the hundred of South …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… for the Poor, p. 135. The industrial parish of Dawley in the heart of the east Shropshire coalfield became an urban district in the 19th century and the centre of a new town in the 20th. … area that had been designated as Dawley new town in 1963. Madeley, 3 the remainder of Stirchley, and parts of Benthall, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… left £7 a year charged on land to the poor of Dawley. 97 In the early 19th century it was distributed, sometimes with the poor's stock, in small doles mainly to widows. 98 In 1860 Hodden's charity … of a poor's stock of £33 that was lent to George Yorke of Madeley Wood in the mid 18th century. 5 Payment of interest …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a parish church by the 16th century, was recorded in documentary sources. New churches were built at Malinslee … consequently divided into three ecclesiastical districts in the 1840s. In 1975 the three parishes were combined with … that many parishioners went to church at Wellington or Madeley. 49 In 1805 St. Leonard's, a new church with 795 …
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 … the road from Dawley Green to Horsehay, was described in 1780 as the road to Much Wenlock. 25 It seems to have been … 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 … 374. 'The Most Extraordinary District in the World': Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale, ed. B. Trinder (1977), 49. …
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, probably held schools in Dawley 45 and Richard Poyner was recorded as a … 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 serf, a villein, and two bordars … 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 …