Woodlands Lane, Horsehay, Shropshire. Assessment Report

An archaeological assessment was carried out as part of the preparation to inform a
planning application for an extension to the Johnston Pipes Development Site at Horsehay,
near Dawley, Shropshire (centred on NGR SO 672066). The study area consists of an area
of steeply rolling open rough pasture land to the north of Coalbrookdale and south of the
industrial hamlet of Horsehay, situated in the modern civil parish of Dawley Hamlets and
within the historical township of Little Dawley. The assessment comprised a desk-based
study, compiling data from the Shropshire Sites and Monuments Record and the
Shropshire Record Office, the Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust Library, and Lancaster
University Library, as well as a rapid field inspection.