Dawley Castle (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Dalileye; Delaley

In the civil parish of Dawley Hamlets.
In the historic county of Shropshire.
Modern Authority of Telford and Wrekin.
1974 county of Shropshire.
Medieval County of Shropshire.

OS Map Grid Reference: SJ68810624
Latitude 52.65300° Longitude -2.46248°

Dawley Castle has been described as a certain Fortified Manor House.

There are no visible remains.

Description

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)

A Royal licence to crenellate was granted in 1316 Nov 17 (Click on the date for details of this licence.).

Sources of information, references and further reading

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 71886.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 00693.

Websites (Gatehouse is not responsible for the content of external websites.)
- Dawley Heritage and Dawley Heritage (an artist imagination of the castle based on no evidence at all but not unreasonable)
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
Periodical Articles
- 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 (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
- 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
Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- Camden, Wm, 1607, Britannia hypertext critical edition by Dana F. Sutton (2004)

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