West Bromwich in 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]

"WEST BROMWICH, a parish in the southern division of the hundred of Offlow, in the county of Stafford, 4 miles to the N.W. of Birmingham. It is a station on the Birmingham and Wolverhampton branch of the Great Western railway. The parish is situated in the centre of a district abounding in iron and coal, on the banks of the river Tame, a branch of the Trent. " (There is more of this description).

"SANDWELL PARK, a seat of the Earl of Dartmouth in the parish of West Bromwich, county Stafford, 4 miles N.W. of Birmingham."

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