Places in Rowley Regis in 1872

ROWLEY REGIS

REDDAL-HILL, a chapelry in Rowley-Regis parish, Stafford; adjacent to Worcestershire, 2 miles E by S of Brierley-Hill railway station, and 2 S by E of Dudley. It was constituted in 1844; and its post town is Dudley. Rated property, about £16,000. Pop. in 1861, 10,349. Houses, 1,907. The property is much subdivided. The inhabitants are chiefly miners, nailers, and chain-makers. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £300. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1847, and is in the early English style. There are several dissenting chapels and an endowed school.

TIVIDALE, a village in Rowley-Regis parish, Stafford; on the Birmingham canal, and at an intersection of railways, 1 mile N of Tipton. It has a post-office under Tipton, two Methodist chapels, and extensive ironworks, foundries, chain-works, brick-works, collieries, and quarries; and it exports great quantities of the stone popularly called Rowley rag. Pop., 1,860.

[Description(s) from The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]