Brierley Hill in 1859

BRIERLY - HILL, a chapelry, in the parish of KING'S-SWINFORD, union of STOURBRIDGE, N. division of the hundred of SEISDON, S. division of the county of 
STAFFORD, 2 miles (N.N.E.) from Stourbridge. The vicinity abounds with collieries and iron-works on a large scale; and steam-boilers, and various other heavy articles in iron, are made here.

The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of Dr. Penfold, the impropriator, with a net income of £150: the chapel, 
now a district church, was erected in 1767. A national school for 500 children has been erected.   

[Description(s) from The Topographical Dictionary of England (1859) by Samuel Lewis - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]