Description
Dawley, Little, or Dawley Parva, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Dawley parish, Salop, on the Shrewsbury Canal, 1 mile from Horsehay station on the G.W.R., and 1 1/4 mile from Stirchley on the L. & N.W.R. There is a post office, of the name of Little Dawley, under Dawley (R.S.O.), and another at Horsehay (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Dawley (R.S.O.) The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1844. Population, 1454. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £164 with residence. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was erected in 1845.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
