Mary’s chapel of ease, at Jackfield, and chapels for Baptists, Independents, and Methodists. The market is held on Wednesday, and a fair on the last Tuesday in April. The parish of Broseley contained, in 1841, 4,829 inhabitants, and in 1851, 4,739. MADELEY, or _Madeley Market_, is a parish, in the same franchise as Broseley—the town extending to COALBROOKDALE, which is accounted a part of it, and connected therewith in its trade and history. The iron works in this parish are considerable, and employ a great number of hands. The Coalbrookdale Company, so celebrated for the beautiful specimens of wrought iron, which were sent by them to the Great Exhibition of 1851, have their works here. The famous iron bridge, which at this place bestrides the Severn, and gives name to a part of the parish, was constructed here in 1779. All the principal parts were erected in three months, without any accident to the works or workmen, or the least obstruction to the navigation of the river. The span of the arch is one hundred feet six inches, and the height, from the base line to the centre, forty feet, the total weight of iron being three hundred and seventy-eight tons. This fine work has every claim to attention as an effort of great mechanical genius. Madeley had at one time a well attended market, which was removed by the lord of the manor (Joseph Reynolds, Esq.) to IRONBRIDGE, a place of rising importance in this parish, situated on the banks of the Severn. The magistrates assemble in petty sessions at Ironbridge every sixth week on a Tuesday, and Madeley is included in the twenty-seventh circuit of county Court towns under the new acts for the recovery of debts not exceeding £50. A railway (which will be of great importance to this district) is projected—it will run from Shrewsbury to Kidderminster, and will be called the Severn Valley fine. The places of worship are the parish church of Saint Michael; the new church of Saint Luke at Ironbridge, and one at Coalbrookdale, dedicated to the Holy Trinity; and chapels for the Society of Friends, Roman Catholics, and Wesleyan Methodists. The living of Madeley is a discharged vicarage, in the gift of Sir Edward Kynaston, Bart. The House of Industry, erected here in 1797, at a cost of £1,000., is a convenient building.