Places in Sedgley in 1868

SEDGLEY

"BRIERLEY, a village in the parish of Sedgley, hundred of Seisdon, in the county of Stafford, 3 miles to the S. of Wolverhampton."

"COSELEY, a village in the parish of Sedgley, in the county of Stafford, 1 mile S. of Bilston. It gives name, with Deepfield, to a station on the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley railway. The living is a curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £138, in the patronage of Lord Ward. The inhabitants are engaged in the iron and coal trade."

"COTWALLEND, a hamlet in the parish of Sedgley, in the county of Stafford, 2 miles N.W. of Dudley"

"ETTINGSHALL, a village in the parish of Sedgley, county Stafford, 1 mile S.W. of Bilston. The people are mostly employed in the mines. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £150, in the patronage of the bishop."

"UPPER GORNALL, (and Lower Gornall) villages in the parish of Sedgley, hundred of North Seisdon, county Stafford, 2 miles N.W. of Dudley, their post town. The inhabitants are for the most part engaged in the iron trade, and in its various branches of chain, nail, and fire-iron manufacture. Firebricks are also extensively made from a peculiar kind of clay abounding in the neighbourhood.

There is a district church in each of the villages; the living of Upper Gornall being a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £145, in the gift of the vicar of the parish; and that of Lower Gornall, also a perpetual curacy, value £129, in the patronage of the Earl of Dudley. The Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive and New Connexion Methodists have chapels, and there are good National, British, and infant schools.

"WOODSETTON, a hamlet in the parish of Sedgley, county Stafford, 3 miles N.W. of Dudley."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]