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DawleyDawley is a town in Shropshire, England, and now forms part of the new town of Telford (which was originally, in 1963 going to be named Dawley New Town before in 1968 it was decided to name the town Telford after the engineer and road builder Thomas Telford). Dawley is one of the older settlements in Shropshire, being mentioned in the Domesday Book. It is divided into Dawley Magna and Little Dawley. Dawley has a street market every Friday. History There was a castle in Dawley, but it was demolished around 1648. The site is unknown, although the Castle Pools (on the old quarry site) and Castle Ironworks (built by the Darby family, one of whom commissioned the world famous Iron Bridge) possibly indicate the general area where it may have stood. Dawley was for over three centuries a mining town, both for coal and ironstone (if you are buying a house there, make sure your solicitor does a mining search as there are many abandoned mineshafts). The local mud is red, and rainwater running off fields stains sideroads with rust. Famous residents Dawley was the birthplace of Captain Matthew Webb who was the first man to swim the English Channel - his monument stands on the High Street. It is a local story that when Matthew Webb returned to Dawley after swimming the Channel they held a parade in his honour and a pig stood on the wall to watch the band go by. Edith Pargeter went to school in Dawley (under her pen name of Ellis Peters she wrote the Brother Cadfael novels). Dawley has an excellent ballet school (Carmicheal School of Dance) and also hosts the Telford Stage School.
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