Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SEDGLEY

SEDGLEY, a town, a parish, and a sub-district, in Dudley district, Stafford. The town stands on high ground, 1¾ mile W by S of Coseley r. station, and 3 N W of Dudley; is a polling-place; and has a post-office‡ under Dudley. The parish contains also the villages of Brierley, Coseley, Cotwall-End, Ettingshall, Lower Gornall, Upper Gornall, Gospel-End, and Woodsetton. Acres, 7, 364. Real property, £109, 818; of which £18, 105 are in mines, £526 in quarries, and £44,052 in iron-works. Pop. in 1851, 29, 447; in 1861, 36, 637. Houses, 7,062. The increase of pop. arose from the extension of the coal and iron trade, and from the operations of building societies. The surface is hilly; the substrata are rich in useful minerals: and the lower grounds are traversed by numerous rivulets and canals. A hill, called the Beacon, is crowned by a tower, and commands an extensive view. The manufacture of nails, rivets, chains, fire-irons, locks, iron safes, bellows, bricks, and malt, is largely carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £444.* Patron, the Earl of Dudley. The church was built in 1830, at a cost of £11,000; and is in the pointed style. The chapelries of Coseley, Ettingshall, Lower Gornall, and Upper Gornall are separate benefices. There are numerous dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, an endowed school with £31 a year, several other public schools, a workhouse, and charities £27. The sub-district is conterminate with the parish.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a town, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Sedgley AP/CP       Sedgley SubD       Dudley RegD/PLU       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Sedgley

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