Dawley is a Town in the county of Shropshire.

Dawley in Shropshire is located 1.8 km SW from Telford.

Dawley postcode: TF4 2TL

Retail in Dawley

There are great places to visit near Dawley including some great towns, rivers and streams, castles, ruins, villages, historic buildings and shopping centres.

The area around Dawley boasts some of the best towns including Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

River Clun is a great place to visit close to Dawley if you like rivers and streams.

Dawley's best nearby castles can be found at Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle are some of Dawley best ruins to visit near Dawley.

Dawley is near some unmissable villages like Acton Burnell,

Don't miss Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell's historic buildings if visiting the area around Dawley.

Don't miss Telford Centre's shopping centres if visiting the area around Dawley.

Dawley History

There are some historic monuments around Dawley:

• Coal mining remains 350m north west and 520m north of New Works village
• Coalport Bridge
• Darby Ironworks, Coalbrookdale (furnaces, forehearths and blowing house areas)
• Medieval cross in Holy Trinity churchyard
• Wappenshall canal bridge, Shropshire Union Canal
• Churchyard of St James's Church
• Old Park Farm moated site
• Parts of a Roman camp and signal station 410m ESE of Watling Street Grange
• Wrekin Rifle Range
• Part of a small Roman town, the Roman road called Watling Street and a mansio 255m north west of Upper Woodhouse Farm
• New Willey Ironworks
• Group of round barrows at Willowmoor
• Lilleshall Beam Blowing Engines
• Buildwas Abbey
• Headgear at Grange colliery, 240m north west of Watling Street Grange
• Wall Camp in the Weald Moors: a large low-lying multivallate hillfort
• St Leonard's Priory immediately adjacent to the Church of St Mary and St Leonard, Wombridge
• Moated site at Whitwell
• Blists Hill Iron Furnaces
• Bedlam Furnaces
• The Iron Bridge
• Site of pumping engine at Muxton Bridge colliery
• Lilleshall Abbey
• Coalport Inclined Plane
• Large multivallate and univallate hillforts, a round barrow, a Late Bronze Age settlement and WWII military remains, on The Wrekin
• Wenlock Priory