Dawley Castle

Has been described as a Certain Fortified Manor House

There are no visible remains

NameDawley Castle
Alternative NamesDalileye; Delaley
Historic CountryShropshire
Modern AuthorityTelford and Wrekin
1974 AuthorityShropshire
Civil ParishDawley Hamlets

Dawley Castle, the medieval manor house of Great Dawley, lay c. 250 metres south of the church. William Morton obtained a licence to crenellate in 1316. During the Civil War the house was garrisoned by Royalists until captured by 1645. By 1762 the site had become a farmstead, and buildings surrounded by the remains of the water-filled moat survived in 1817. All trace of the former house was obliterated in the early C19 by slag heaps from the adjacent Castle furnaces. (VCH 1984)

Gatehouse Comments

Beyond being moated little seems to be known of the form of this house. It had a castle name and was occupied in the Civil War so can be assumed to have had some military features (probably decorative crenellations) and probably to have had a fair amount of stonework but is unlikely to have been a thick walled building.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceSJ688062
Latitude52.6529998779297
Longitude-2.46248006820679
Eastings368810
Northings306240
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Books

  • Duckers, Peter and Anne, 2006, Castles of Shropshire (Stroud: Tempus) p. 71-2
  • Salter, Mike, 2001 (2edn), The Castles and Moated Mansions of Shropshire (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 41
  • Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales Vol. 2 East Anglia, Central England and Wales (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) p. 476
  • Salter, Mike, 1993, Midlands Castles (Birmingham) p. 40
  • Jackson, M.J.,1988, Castles of Shropshire (Shrewsbury: Shropshire Libraries) p. 23
  • Baugh, G.C. and Elrington, C.R. (eds), 1985, VCH Shropshire Vol. 11 p. 113 (tenurial history) online transcription
  • King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 433
  • Auden, J.E., 1912, Little Guide to Shropshire p. 113
  • Anderson, J.C., 1864 (2edn 1972), Shropshire, Its Early History and Antiquities p. 142 online copy
  • Eyton, R.W., 1859, Antiquities of Shropshire (London: John Russell Smith) Vol. 8 p. 44 online copy
  • Edwards, E., 1858, Notes on the Castellated Structures of Shropshire p. 22

Antiquarian

Journals

  • Watson, M.D., 1987, 'Gazetteer of Moated Sites in Shropshire' Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol. 65 p. 4
  • 1912, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol. 2 p. 1
  • 1910, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol. 10 p. 94n, 96
  • 1901, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol. 1 p. 70
  • 1895, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol. 7 p. 127
  • 1886, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol. 9 p. 168

Primary Sources

  • Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1898, Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward II (1313-17) Vol. 2 p. 566 online copy
  • Rickard, John, 2002, The Castle Community. The Personnel of English and Welsh Castles, 1272-1422 (Boydell Press) (lists sources for 1272-1422) p. 413