Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DAWLEY

DAWLEY, a hamlet on the west border of Middlesex; near the Grand Junction canal, 3 miles SSE of Uxbridge. It was known, at Domesday, as Dalleya; and it was the seat of the Bennets, and of Lord Boling-broke.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Middlesex AncC
Place names: DALLEYA     |     DAWLEY
Place: Dawley

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