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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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DAWLEY-MAGNA, a township and a parish in Madeley district, Salop. The township lies on the Shrewsbury canal, and on the Wellington and Severn Junction railway, under the Wrekin, near Horsehay r. station, and 4 miles SE by S of Wellington. It has a post office, ‡ of the name of Dawley, under Wellington. The parish includes also Dawley Bank, ¾ of a mile distant, with another post office there under Wellington; also the townships of Dawley-Parva and Malinslee. Acres, 2, 743. Real property, £70, 858; of which £37, 253 are in ironworks, and £28, 442 in mines. Pop., 11, 013. Houses, 2, 050. The property is divided among a few. Most of the inhabitants are employed in blast furnaces, forges, bar-iron mills, and collieries. Many short railways, for local transit, run among the works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150.* Patrons, R. Phillips, Esq., and others. The church is tolerable. The vicarages of Dawley-Parva and Malinslee are separate benefices. A Wesleyan chapel, of coloured bricks, with stone dressings, at a cost of about £1, 200, was built in 1861. There are chapels also for Baptists, Primitive Methodists, and New Connexion Methodists. Charities, £10.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Dawley Magna CP/Ch Madeley RegD/PLU Shropshire AncC |
| Place: | Dawley |
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