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Lawley Bank
Village
Site of the former railway station
Lawley BankLocation within Shropshire
OS grid reference	SJ676086
Civil parish	Lawley and Overdale
Unitary authority	Telford and Wrekin
Ceremonial county	Shropshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	TELFORD
Postcode district	TF3
Dialling code	01952
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Shropshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Telford
List of places UK England Shropshire 52°40′31″N 2°28′46″W / 52.675208°N 2.479387°W / 52.675208; -2.479387

Lawley Bank is a historic mining village in the borough of Telford and Wrekin in Shropshire, England. It is located northwest of the town of Dawley and west of the town of Telford. It is part of the civil parish of Lawley and Overdale.

History

Lawley Bank was built on the Shropshire Coalfield alongside the neighbouring village of Dawley Bank during the Industrial Revolution. There were multiple types of industry including concrete plants, brickworks and factories opening in and around the village. 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, who was killed in during World War II and was based at the former RAF Atcham, near Shrewsbury. The memorial straddles the boundary between Lawle Bank and Dawley Bank.

Transport

There are regular buses through the village between Telford, Shrewsbury and Madeley.

The village was also formerly served by the Wellington to Craven Arms Railway with a railway station on Station Road. This is now occupied by housing estates.

References

1. 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.
2. "Lawley Bank - Latest News, Headlines and Entertainment from the BBC". BBC News. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
3. "Lawley Bank trail - Lawley and Overdale Parish Council". 1 August 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
4. "History trail - Lawley and Overdale Parish Council". 26 July 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
5. 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.
6. Raistrick, Arthur (26 May 2023). Industrial Archaeology: An Historical Survey. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-92442-8.
7. "Dawley Bank trail - Lawley and Overdale Parish Council". 1 August 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
8. Petty, John (1860). The History of the Primitive Methodist Connexion from Its Origin to the Conference of 1859. R. Davies, Conference Offices.
9. "USA WWII pilot Clifford W Jensen honoured with Telford plaque". BBC News. 29 November 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
10. Rowe, Nathan (6 May 2022). "Telford ceremony to remember fallen American WW2 pilots". www.shropshirestar.com. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
11. "Telford memorial plaque is tribute to WW2 plane hero". www.shropshirestar.com. 30 November 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
12. "Lawley, adjacent to The Grazing Cow – Bus Times". bustimes.org. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
13. Clarke, Neil (15 April 2015). Railways of East Shropshire Through Time. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-4456-4031-0.
14. Farnworth, Roger (7 July 2022). "Lawley". Roger Farnworth. Retrieved 5 January 2025.

• Villages in Shropshire
• Lawley and Overdale
• Telford and Wrekin
• Telford