Horsehay is a suburban village on the western outskirts of Dawley in the Telford and Wrekin borough of Shropshire, England.

Coalbrookdale specialised in the smaller and more decorative ironwork pieces, whereas Horsehay produced many larger scale products, including the railway bridge in nearby Shifnal.

Formed in 1755 by Abraham Darby II it contributed to the birth of the Industrial Revolution through large scale production of iron.

The Coalbrookdale Company needed additional furnaces and Horsehay (an easy walk to the north) provided a sufficient water supply and land for lease.

For this venture, Darby II enlisted the financial help of Thomas Goldney III (the main shareholder of the Coalbrookdale Company).

The new furnace ushered in a period of great activity when the East Shropshire Coalfield, for a time, became the area of greatest production of iron then known.

Horsehay was the birthplace in 1913 of novelist Edith Pargeter, who wrote the popular Brother Cadfael novels under the pen name "Ellis Peters".