A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
LAWLEY, a chapelry in Wellington parish, Salop; on the Wellington and Severn-Junction railway, 2½ miles SE of Wellington. It has a station, of the name of Lawley-Bank, on the railway; and its post town is Wellington, Salop. The statistics are returned with the parish. An eminence here is called Lawley Hill; and coal pits and sandstone quarries are adjacent to it. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £100. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church was built in 1865; is in the early English style; and contams 302 sittings.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Wellington AP/CP Shropshire AncC |
| Place: | Lawley |
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