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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "LITTLE DAWLEY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Dawley	Shropshire	Dawley .-- town and par., Shropshire, on Shrewsbury Canal, 4 miles SE. of Wellington and 161 miles NW. of London, 2743 ac., pop. 9200; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks; has extensive ironworks and coal mines; contains Dawley Bank , hamlet with school; P.O.; and Dawley Parva , eccl. dist., pop. 2063; P.O., called Little	Bartholomew
  DAWLEY-PARVA	Shropshire	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	Imperial
  HILLINGDON	Middlesex	Little London, belonged to Count de Salis. Cedar House was the seat of Reynardson, the naturalist; and took its name from a cedar tree which, in 1779, measured from 12½ to nearly 16 feet in the girth of its stem, and from 89 to 96 feet in the diameter of its head. Other chief residences are Hillingdon House, H. Court, H. Place, H. Grove, Little H. and Dawley	Imperial
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	Little Ness, Penley, Welch-Hampton, and Weston-Lullingfield. The deanery of Hodnet contains the rectories of Hodnet, Norton-in-Hales, and Stoke-on-Tern; the vicarages of Cheswardine and Market-Drayton; and the p. curacies of Hales, Little Drayton, Moreton-Say, and Weston. The deanery of Shiffnal contains the rectories of Donnington, Ryton, Stirchley, and Stockton; the vicarages of Albrighton-next-Shiffnal, Kemberton, Shiffnal, and Sutton-Maddock; and the p. curacies of Boningale, Dawley	Imperial
  Little Dawley	Shropshire	Little Dawley , eccl. dist. andvil.,Dawley par., Shropshire - dist., pop. 2063; vil., 4 m. SE. of Wellington; P.O.	Bartholomew
  MADELEY	Shropshire	Little Wenlock. Acres, 7,682. Pop., 10,733. Houses, 2,154.—The district comprehends also the subdistrict of Broseley, containing the parishes of Broseley, Linley, Willey, Barrow, Benthall, and Posenball; the sub-district of Dawley	Imperial

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