BROSELEY  , a

market town in the municipal borough of Wenlock (q.v.) and the Wellington (Mid) parliamentary division of Shropshire, England, on the right bank of the Severn . It has a station (Ironbridge and Broseley) on the Great Western railway, 158 m . N.W. from London . There is trade in coal, but ' i . 146, " worthy Settle Banks and Broome." A footnote (1743) explained away the allusion by making it apply to Richard Brome, the disciple of Ben Jonson . Also iii . 332, of which the original rendering was: " Hibernian politics, 0 Swift, thy doom, And Pope's, translating ten whole years with Broome." In the Bathos he was classed with the parrots and the tortoises . the town is most famous for the manufacture of tobacco-pipes, a long-established industry . Pottery and 'bricks are also produced, and at Benthall, 1 m . W., are large encaustic tile works . The early name of the town was Burwardesley .