Places in Wednesbury in 1868

WEDNESBURY

"MOXLEY, a village in the parish of Wednesbury, hundred of South Offlow, county Stafford, 8 miles N.W. of Birmingham. It has a joint station with Bradley on the Birmingham and Wolverhampton section of the Great Western railway. It is a modern manufacturing village, situated near the Birmingham canal and river Teme. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £213, in the patronage of the crown and bishop alternately. The church is a neat modern edifice."

"OCKER-HILL, a hamlet in the parish of Wednesbury, hundred of South Offlow, county Stafford, 8 miles N.W. of Birmingham. It is a station on the Wolverhampton and Walsall section of the London and North-Western railway. It is situated in the valley of the river Teme, near the Birmingham canal. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £150, in the patronage of the crown and bishop alternately."

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