In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Lawley like this:
LAWLEY, a chapelry in Wellington parish, Salop; on the Wellington and Severn-Junction railway, 2½ miles SE of Wellington. It has a station, of the name of Lawley-Bank, on the railway; and its post town is Wellington, Salop. The statistics are returned with the parish. An eminence here is called Lawley Hill; and coal pits and sandstone quarries are adjacent to it. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £100. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church was built in 1865; is in the early English style; and contams 302 sittings.
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Lawley through time
Lawley is now part of Telford and Wrekin district. Click here for graphs and data of how Telford and Wrekin has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Lawley itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Lawley, in Telford and Wrekin and Shropshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24453
Date accessed: 22nd September 2024
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