AD		Historical Dates of Interest to Alveley Village
	50		Alveley history first recorded
	100		Religion is reputed to have come to the village with the Druids of Wales
	597		Wulfus , King of Mercia is reputed to have murdered his sons below the village on the banks of the Severn
	1140		The Church is erected
	1163		Henry II visits the village staying overnight at Pool Hall
	1341		Parish Assesment £7 13s
	1349		The Black Death strikes, said by some to have killed 60% of the village population
	1348		Coton Hall is built
	1406		Licence granted to "The Three Horse Shoes"
	1461		Edward 1V gave Richard Bylke three houses and a watermill at Alveley, Nordley and Astley- providing Blyke could be called upon to provide men in time of battle.
	1564		Elizabeth I grants to ralph Richardson and all his heirs for ever "The Chantry of St Marys"
	1647		Licence granted to "The Bell Inn"
	1734		The village becomes known as "Alveley"
	1799		A new village school is built
	1800		The lands of Alveley stretch five miles- a total of 5,500 acres
	1801		The first census records a population of 791
	1841		The village contains 187 houses
	1862		The Methodist Chapel is built
	1901		Population 940
	1934		A new school is built
	1937		Alveley Colliery is opened
	1961		Population 1076
	1969		Alveley Colliery closed
	1986		Plans to convert land around the disused Colliery into a Country Park

Alveley Buttercross. (Photograph taken by Tony Colton of Bridgnorth )