Madeley is a historic market town and civil parish in the borough of Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England.

Sigward, a local ruler in the time of King Æthelbald of Mercia, is said to have held 3 hides of land at Madeley.

The post was abandoned after the fall of Shrewsbury, and two months later Parliamentary forces occupied the parish church.

[3] After the Battle of Worcester in 1651, King Charles II hid in a barn adjoining Upper House in Church Street.

[4] In the 17th century, Madeley was a small market town, but local tradesmen began to specialise, working in the river trade and in mining.

The ward is within the Telford constituency, which since the May 2024 general election has been represented by Labour MP, Shaun Davies.

[14] The town is administered at borough level by Telford and Wrekin unitary authority, and is represented as part of the Madeley and Sutton Hill ward by 2 Labour and 1 Conservative councillor.

Madeley is situated in the southern part of the new town of Telford, to the north of Ironbridge and the River Severn.

[15] Part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Ironbridge Gorge falls within the Parish of Madeley.

[28][29] The Fletcher Methodist Centre can be found in the town, and on the Tweedale Industrial Estate near Madeley is the Springfield Christian Fellowship.

[32] Major Charles Allix Lavington Yate, is another former resident of the town, who earned the Victoria Cross in the First World War.

[33] He was kinsman of Colonel Sir Charles Yate, 1st Baronet, (1849–1940) British soldier and administrator in India, who retired to Madeley Hall and is buried in the parish churchyard.

Mary Whitehouse taught art at Madeley Modern School (now the Haberdashers' Abraham Darby) from 1960 to 1964, taking responsibility for sex education.