Samuel Peploe (1667-1752), later Bishop of Chester, was a native of Dawley Parva, where he was baptised.
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Today it forms part of the new town of Telford (which was originally, in 1963, going to be named Dawley New Town before it was decided in 1968 to name the town Telford instead after the engineer and road builder Thomas Telford).
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In 1535, just before the Dissolution of the Monasteries the priory drew an income from lands and rents in Chillington and Horsebrook, both in Brewood parish, and in Bradley, Broom, Kidderminster, Albrighton, Dawley, and Tong: these were worth £11 1s.
After her very successful debut in Susie Snowflake it was decided to star Miss Pennington in a circus story to be called The Rainbow Princess which is being staged under the direction of J. Searle Dawley.