DAWLEY MAGNA: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1824.

"DAWLEY MAGNA, a parish in the Wellington division of the hundred of Bradford South, a curacy, in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, the deanery of Newport and archdeaconry of Salop. 996 houses, 5,147 inhabitants. 4 miles south-east of Wellington, The parish of Dawley has two large coal and iron works."

" DAWLEY PARVA, a township in the parish of Dawley Magna, and in the Wellington division of the hundred of Bradford South."

" HORSE HAY, a very considerable ironwork, the principal one of the Colebrookdale Company, and a hamlet in the parish of Dawley Magna, and in the hundred of Bradford South. It contains at a moderate calculation, 1,000 inhabitants."

" MALIN'S LEE, a township in the parish of Dawley Magna, or Great Dawley, and in the Wellington division of the hundred of Bradford South. 3½ miles north-west of Shiffnal."

[Transcribed information from A Gazetteer of Shropshire - T Gregory - 1824](unless otherwise stated)

[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2015]