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The Battle of Cinderloo occurred at Old Park, Dawley, England, in 1821, when the Shropshire Yeomanry clashed with 3,000 striking colliers who had gathered to protest at cuts to their wages.

On 2 February 1821, more than 500 miners gathered in Dawley and marched in protest at pay cuts and increasing poverty. The march gathered in numbers to over 3,000 and culminated in a pitched battle with the local yeomanry, leaving two men dead, many injuries on both sides and a lasting bitterness and anger amongst working people in the East Shropshire Coalfield. This dramatic conflict took place on the cinder hills at Old Park to the north of Dawley and it has become known as 'The Battle of Cinderloo'. , from two momentous events that had occurred a few years beforehand: firstly the historic military Battle of Waterloo, which took place in 1815 in what is now Belgium; secondly, the Peterloo Massacre at St Peter's Field,  Manchester, in 1819.