Lawley Bank
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Lawley Bank[1] is a historic mining village in the borough of Telford and Wrekin in Shropshire, England.[2] It is located northwest of the town of Dawley and west of the town of Telford.[3] It is part of the civil parish of Lawley and Overdale.[4]
History
Lawley Bank[5] was built on the Shropshire Coalfield alongside the neighbouring village of Dawley Bank[6] during the Industrial Revolution.[7] There were multiple types of industry including concrete plants, brickworks and factories opening in and around the village.[8] The village later became part of the Dawley New Town in 1963, which later became Telford.
Amenities
Most of the villages amenities are located on Birchfield Way. There is a memorial to 2nd Lieutenant Clifford Wallace Jensen[9], who was killed during World War II and was based at the former RAF Atcham, near Shrewsbury.[10][11] The memorial straddles the boundary between Lawley Bank and Dawley Bank.
Transport
There are regular buses through the village between Telford, Shrewsbury and Madeley.[12]
The village was also formerly served by the Wellington to Craven Arms Railway with a railway station on Station Road.[13] This is now occupied by housing estates.[14]
References
- ↑ Britain, Geological Survey of Great (1879). Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom ... Mining Records. Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. H.M. Stationery Office. Search this book on
- ↑ "Lawley Bank trail - Lawley and Overdale Parish Council". 2022-08-01. Retrieved 2025-01-05.
- ↑ "Lawley Bank trail - Lawley and Overdale Parish Council". 2022-08-01. Retrieved 2025-01-05.
- ↑ "History trail - Lawley and Overdale Parish Council". 2022-07-26. Retrieved 2025-01-05.
- ↑ Co, Edward Cassey & (1871). Edward Cassey and Co.'s History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Shropshire, ...: Prefixed Will be Found the Population Returns of England and Wales, in 1851&1861; ... Edward Cassey&Company. Search this book on
- ↑ Petty, John (1860). The History of the Primitive Methodist Connexion from Its Origin to the Conference of 1859. R. Davies, Conference Offices. Search this book on
- ↑ Raistrick, Arthur (2023-05-26). Industrial Archaeology: An Historical Survey. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-92442-8. Search this book on
- ↑ "Dawley Bank trail - Lawley and Overdale Parish Council". 2022-08-01. Retrieved 2025-01-05.
- ↑ "USA WWII pilot Clifford W Jensen honoured with Telford plaque". BBC News. 2012-11-29. Retrieved 2025-01-05.
- ↑ Rowe, Nathan (2022-05-06). "Telford ceremony to remember fallen American WW2 pilots". www.shropshirestar.com. Retrieved 2025-01-05.
- ↑ "Telford memorial plaque is tribute to WW2 plane hero". www.shropshirestar.com. 2012-11-30. Retrieved 2025-01-05.
- ↑ "Lawley, adjacent to The Grazing Cow – Bus Times". bustimes.org. Retrieved 2025-01-05.
- ↑ Clarke, Neil (2015-04-15). Railways of East Shropshire Through Time. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-4456-4031-0. Search this book on
- ↑ Farnworth, Roger (2022-07-07). "Lawley". Roger Farnworth. Retrieved 2025-01-05.
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