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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Coalbrookdale	Shropshire	Dawley and Madeley pars., S. Shropshire, 11 miles SE. of Shrewsbury and 161 miles NW. of London, pop. 1707; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank	Bartholomew
  COALBROOKDALE, or Colebrookdale	Shropshire	Dawley-Magua; and was constituted in 1851. Pop., 1,805. Houses, 360. The living is a vicarage in the diocese	Imperial
  Dawley	Middlesex	Dawley , hamlet, Middlesex, 3 miles SE. of Uxbridge; in vicinity is Dawley Court .	Bartholomew
  Dawley	Shropshire	coal mines; contains Dawley Bank , hamlet with school; P.O.; and Dawley Parva , eccl. dist., pop. 2063; P.O., called Little Dawley .	Bartholomew
  DAWLEY	Shropshire	DAWLEY , a sub-district, comprising Dawley-Magna and Stirchley parishes in Madeley district, Salop. Acres, 3, 576. Pop., 11, 323. Houses	Imperial
  DAWLEY	Middlesex	DAWLEY , a hamlet on the west border of Middlesex; near the Grand Junction canal, 3 miles SSE of Uxbridge. It was known	Imperial
  DAWLEY-MAGNA	Shropshire	Dawley, under Wellington. The parish includes also Dawley Bank, ¾ of a mile distant, with another post office there under	Imperial
  DAWLEY-PARVA	Shropshire	DAWLEY-PARVA , a township-chapelry in Dawley-Magna parish, Salop; on the Shrewsbury canal and the Severn Junction railway, near	Imperial
  HARLINGTON	Middlesex	Dawley House was the seat of the Bennetts and of Lord Bolingbroke; and a wing of it still remains. Market	Imperial
  HILLINGDON	Middlesex	Dawley Court. Charles I. halted here, in 1646, on his way to the Scottish army. The living is a vicarage	Imperial
  Horsehay	Shropshire	Horsehay , hamlet with ry. sta., Dawley par., N. Shropshire, 4½ miles SE. of Wellington; P.O.	Bartholomew
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	Dawley-Magna, Dawley-Parva, Malins-Lee, Pains-Lane, Priors-Lee, and Tong. The deanery of Shrewsbury contains the rectories of Fitz	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	Dawley, containing the parishes of DawleyMagua and Stirchley; and the sub-district of MuchWenlock, conterminate with Much-Wenlock parish. Acres	Imperial
  MALINSILEE	Shropshire	Dawley-Magna parish, Salop; on the Coalport branch of the Northwestern railway, 4½ miles N of Coalport. It has a station	Imperial
  Malins Lee	Shropshire	eccl. dist. and ry. sta., Dawley par., Shropshire - dist., pop, 3738; the sta. is 4½ miles SE. of Wellington.	Bartholomew
  SHROPSHIRE, or Salop	Shropshire	Dawley-Magna, Ellesmere, Ironbridge, Market-Drayton, Newport, Shiffnal, Wellington, and Whitchurch; and there are about 740 smaller towns, villages, and hamlets	Imperial

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