Dawley
Dawley is a former mining town and civil parish in the borough of Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England. It was originally proposed to be the main centre of the 'Dawley New Town' plan in 1963, however it was decided in 1968 to name the new town as 'Telford', after the engineer and road-builder Thomas Telford.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include The Telford Langley School and Elephant And Castle Public House.
The Telford Langley School
School
The Telford Langley School is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in the Dawley area of Telford in Shropshire, England. Its predecessor, Dawley Modern School, was opened at Pool Hill on 17 September 1956 by Mr George Chetwood, to take children over 11 from four contributory primary schools; there were c.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Horsehay and Telford.
Horsehay
Suburb
Horsehay is a suburban village on the western outskirts of Dawley in the Telford and Wrekin borough of Shropshire, England. Horsehay lies in the Dawley Hamlets parish, and on the northern edge of the Ironbridge Gorge area.
Telford
Telford is a new town in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. It is administratively located in the West Midlands region, and is now by far the largest town in Shropshire, being the residence for 155,000 people.
Coalbrookdale
Village
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coalbrookdale is a settlement in the Ironbridge Gorge and the Telford and Wrekin borough of Shropshire, England, of great significance in the history of iron ore smelting. Coalbrookdale is situated 2 miles southwest of Dawley.
Dawley
- Type: Town with 11,400 residents
- Description: small town in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England
- Categories: market town and locality
- Location: Great Dawley, Telford and Wrekin, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.66382° or 52° 39′ 50″ northLongitude
-2.46519° or 2° 27′ 55″ westPopulation
11,400Elevation
610 feet (186 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB DAWOpen location code
9C4VMG7M+GWOpenStreetMap ID
node 27459107OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Dawley” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Dawley”
- Basque: “Dawley”
- Bengali: “ডলিে”
- Chinese: “Dawley”
- Chinese: “道利”
- Chinese: “道雷”
- Dutch: “Dawley”
- Finnish: “Dawley”
- French: “Dawley”
- German: “Dawley”
- Gujarati: “ડોવ્લી”
- Irish: “Dawley”
- Italian: “Dawley”
- Japanese: “グレート・ドーリー”
- Japanese: “ドーリー (シュロップシャー)”
- Kannada: “ಡಾವ್ಲಿ”
- Korean: “그레이트 다울리”
- Ladin: “Dawley”
- Latin: “Dalilea Magna”
- Latin: “Dawley Magna”
- Lithuanian: “Didysis Daulis”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dawley”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dawley”
- Persian: “داولی”
- Polish: “Dawley”
- Portuguese: “Dawley”
- Russian: “Доули”
- South Azerbaijani: “داولی”
- Spanish: “Dawley”
- Swedish: “Dawley”
- Tamil: “டவ்லே”
- Telugu: “దవ్లీ”
- Turkish: “Dawley”
- Ukrainian: “Доулі”
- Urdu: “داولے”
- Volapük: “Dawley”
- Welsh: “Dawley”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Dawley Bus Station and Dawley Town Hall.
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