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Balls Hill
« on: Saturday 22 January 11 22:49 GMT (UK) »
Does anyone know the location of Balls Hill, Lawley Bank? looked at the old maps but it doesnt seem to be marked
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Re: Balls Hill
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 22 January 11 22:58 GMT (UK) »
hello,

I think that it is just off Heath Hill in Dawley.

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Re: Balls Hill
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 23 January 11 23:00 GMT (UK) »
I think you will find it is BLEWS hill, Heath hill, Dawley.

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Re: Balls Hill
« Reply #3 on: Monday 24 January 11 21:20 GMT (UK) »
Heath Hill continues north of the Heath Hill roundabout and Balls Hill is the dead end road on the right(where the White Horse Inn is)


At the opposite end of the road,  it is now a footpath, off Old Office Road,but there is still a street sign.

This is probably less than a mile away from Lawley Bank.


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Re: Balls Hill
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 26 January 11 20:31 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for the replies, it seems an ancestor of mine lived at Balls Hill in the 1821 census, was it always a dead end?
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Re: Balls Hill
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 26 January 11 21:06 GMT (UK) »
hello again,

Balls Hill still exists either side of the Old Office Road so I would assume that it used to be open at both ends.

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Re: Balls Hill
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 26 January 11 21:14 GMT (UK) »

Great Dawley was crossed from north-west to south-east by the main Wellington-Worcester (and Bridgnorth) road, turnpiked 1764. (fn. 17) In 1752 the road entered the parish at Dawley Bank and ran by Dawley Green Lane (later Bank Road and King Street), Dun Cow Bank (New Street), and Finger Lane to Southall. (fn. 18) By the early 19th century it had been diverted from Lawley by Ball's Hill, near Heath Hill, to Dawley Green. (fn. 19) The parish's commercial centre grew up at the junction between the old and new routes at Dawley Green, the road through the settlement being known at High Street by 1851. (fn. 20) A second major route was the Wellington-Coalbrookdale turnpike, opened c. 1817. (fn. 21) Across the south-west corner of the parish it was made by improving a road that followed parts of the former Horsehay-Coalbrookdale waggonway. (fn. 22) The stretch along Loamhole dingle was known as Jigger's Bank, at the foot of which was a tollhouse. (fn. 23) The Wellington-Worcester turnpike was diverted to follow the new road, a new section being built c. 1827 from the older route at Ball's Hill to the new road at Lawley. (fn. 24)

From: 'Dawley: Communications', A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 11: Telford (1985), pp. 106-107. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18087  Date accessed: 08 January 2011.

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Re: Balls Hill
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 10 September 11 21:15 BST (UK) »
Hi

Balls Hill is still there... I live there..
If you go up Old Office Road from the Heath Hill end, Balls Hill crosses Old Office Road about 100 yards from the bottom of Old Office Road.

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Re: Balls Hill
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 09 October 11 21:06 BST (UK) »
Yes i managed to find it on my last visit over there (i live in Galway) it definately had the feel of an old lane!
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