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Madeley shown within Telford in Maroon. Madeley is situated in the southern part of the new town of Telford, to the north of Ironbridge and the River Severn. Coalport, a part of the parish of Madeley can be found to the west of the town, and the modern Telford Town Centre is north of the settlement.
Madeley is a village and ward in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, North Staffordshire, England. It is split into three parts: Madeley, Middle Madeley , and Little Madeley . Madeley Heath is also considered by many to be part of Madeley.
History. Madeley is derived from the Saxon, Madanlieg, meaning ‘a clearing in the woods belonging to Mada’ (Mada is a female Saxon name). Madeley Before It Was Madeley. The local Celtic tribe is believed to have been the Cornovii. They coexisted with the Romans who settled in Britain after 44BC.
May 26, 2024 · Madeley is a village just inside Staffordshire, between Crewe and Newcastle-under-Lyme, and is on the border between Staffordshire and Cheshire (and close to the Shropshire border too!)
- Stafford
- Poyntz
- Offley
- Crewe
Madeley was one of the 131 English manors held by Robert de Stafford (c.1039–c.1100) (alias Robert de Tosny/Toeni, etc.), 1st feudal baron of Stafford, an Anglo-Norman nobleman who arrived in England during or shortly after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and was awarded by King William the Conqueror extensive territories in his newly conquered kingdom...
Following the death of the 3rd Duke, the manor of Madeley was granted to Sir Francis Poyntz (d.1528), 3rd son of Sir Robert Poyntz (died 1520), lord of the manor of Iron Acton in Gloucestershire, chancellor to Queen Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536), first wife of King Henry VIII. Following his death in 1528 his wife (Jane or Joan Browne, daughter of...
In 1547 it was sold by Sir Edward Braye and Joan Browne his wife, daughter and heiress of Sir Matthew Browne, (apparently the widow of Sir Francis Poyntz) to Thomas Offley (d. 1582), a member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors, who became Lord Mayor of London in 1556. His wife was Joan Nichols. Five generations of Offleys lived at the ma...
Thomas Offley's great-great-grandson John Offley (b. 1649) married Anne Crewe, heiress of Crewe Hall, Cheshire. Their son, John Offley, changed his name by a 1708 Act of Parliament to John Offley Crewe when he inherited his mother's estate. Their grandson was John Crewe, 1st Baron Crewe(1742–1829). Madeley Manor was abandoned and fell into ruin fol...
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