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DAWLEY-PARVA, a township-chapelry in Dawley-Magna parish, Salop; on the Shrewsbury canal and the Severn Junction railway, near Lawley-Bank r. station, and 3½ miles SE of Wellington. It has a post office, of the name of Little Dawley, under Wellington. The chapelry was constituted in 1844. Rated property, £3, 550. Pop., 2, 327. Houses, 443, The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is good.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a township-chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Dawley Magna CP/Ch Shropshire AncC |
Place: | Little Dawley |
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