Hadley is about 3 miles (5 km) north-west of Telford.

The population of the civil parish mentioned at the 2011 census was 14,166.

[2] Hadley Learning Community, opened in 2006, is a coeducational all-through school for students from 5 – 16 years of age located in Hadley.

[3] Hadley's parish war memorial, to men of Hadley and district who died serving in the two World Wars, is an imitation of the Cenotaph in London's Whitehall.

It stands in Manse Road near the Methodist Church.