MOSELEY, Worcestershire

"MOSELEY, a chapelry in the parish of King's-Norton, upper division of the hundred of Halfshire, county Worcester, 2 miles S. of Birmingham. It is a station on the Bristol and Birmingham section of the Midland railway. The village, which is considerable, is a suburb of Birmingham. It formerly belonged to the Greveses, a family which came over at the Conquest. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Worcester, value £160, in the patronage of the Vicar of Bromsgrove. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, was enlarged in 1822. There are National and other schools. Moseley Hall is the principal residence."

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