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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "WEST BROMWICH":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BIRMINGHAM	London Staffordshire Warwickshire Worcestershire	BIRMINGHAM , a great town, the fourth in point of population in England, at the NW angle of Warwickshire, adjacent to	Imperial
  Bromwich, West	Staffordshire	West , parl. and mun. bor., and par., Staffordshire, 4½ miles NW. of Birmingham by rail, 5719 ac., pop. 56,295; 3 Banks, 2 newspapers; has coal and iron mines, and hardware mfrs. West Bromwich	Bartholomew
  BROMWICH (West)	Staffordshire	West-Bromwich-South-West and West-Bromwich-North-East; they are divided from each other by the road from Birmingham	Imperial
  CHRISTCHURCH	Derbyshire Gloucestershire Leicestershire London Staffordshire	West Bromwich, Burton-upon-Trent, Camberwell, Carlisle, Chelsea, Cheltenham, Chester, Chesterfield, Chiswick, Clapham, Clevedon, Clifton, Colne, Coventry, Derby, Doncaster, Dover	Imperial
  HALESOWEN	Worcestershire	West Bromwich and Bromsgrove districts, Worcester. The town stands in a fertile valley, on the river Stour, near the Netherton	Imperial
  HANDSWORTH	Staffordshire	West Bromwich district, Stafford. The town stands contiguous to Warwickshire, on Hockley Brook, near the Birmingham and Wolverhampton railway; is suburban	Imperial
  Hill Top	Staffordshire	Hill Top , eccl. dist., West Bromwich par., E. Staffordshire, pop. 9816; P.O., T.O.	Bartholomew
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	West Bromwich, the three p. curacies of Smethwick, the three p. curacies of Tipton, the two p. curacies of Handsworth	Imperial
  NEWTON-ROAD	Staffordshire	Staffordshire; on the Birmingham, Walsall, and Wolverhampton railway, 2½ miles S E of Bescot-Junction. It serves for West Bromwich.	Imperial
  OLDBURY	Worcestershire	Wigorn; and is in West Bromwich district. Acres, 3, 799. Pop. in 1851, 12, 978; in 1861, 17, 258. Houses, 3, 222.	Imperial
  SANDWELL PARK	Staffordshire	Earl of Dartmouth. now a training-college for servants, in West Bromwich parish, Stafford; 4 miles N W of Birmingham.	Imperial
  Spoil Lane	Staffordshire	Spoil Lane , ry. sta. (for West Bromwich), Staffordshire, 4 miles NW. of Birmingham; a large glass factory is here.	Bartholomew
  Staffordshire	Staffordshire	West Bromwich, and Wolverhampton (Wolverhampton, 3 members; Hanley, Newcastle under Lyme, Stafford, Stoke upon Trent, Walsall, and West Bromwich, 1 member	Bartholomew
  Swan Village	Staffordshire	Swan Village , ry. sta. and NW. suburb of West Bromwich, Staffordshire.	Bartholomew
  Wednesbury	Staffordshire	returns 1 member; its parliamentary limits were reduced in 1885 by the formation of the new parliamentary borough of West Bromwich.	Bartholomew
  WEDNESBURY	Staffordshire	West Bromwich district, Stafford. The town stands on the South Staffordshire and Great Western railways, near the Birmingham canal, 8 miles	Imperial
  West Bromwich	Staffordshire	West Bromwich , parl. and mun. bor. and par., Staffordshire, 4¼ miles NW. of Birmingham by rail, 5719 ac., pop. 56,295; 2 Banks	Bartholomew
  Wood Green	Staffordshire	West Bromwich par. and bor., but chiefly in Wednesbury par. and bor., Staffordshire, pop. 4032; the sta. lies between James	Bartholomew

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