[2] It forms part of the Dawley Hamlets civil parish alongside Aqueduct, Doseley, Horsehay, Lightmoor and Spring Village.

[6][7][8][9] The memorial consists of a cross on a brick plinth with plaques relating to both World Wars on a roughly hewn stone within a gravelled area.

[10] The village has bus services connecting it to Telford, Madeley, Dawley and Sutton Hill.

Samuel Peploe (1667-1752), later Bishop of Chester, was a native of Dawley Parva, where he was baptised.

Dalian Atkinson (1968-2016), former Aston Villa striker was living in Little Dawley at the time of his death in 2016.