Wolverhampton in 1868

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

"WOLVERHAMPTON, a parish, market, and union town, parliamentary and municipal borough in the hundreds of Seisdon, Cuttlestone, and Offlow, county Stafford, 16 miles S. of Stafford, and 12½ N.W. of Birmingham. It is the largest town in Staffordshire, situated on an eminence, and almost encompassed by canals, and provided with ample railway communication to all parts of the country. It has two direct lines to London, 125¾ miles by the London and North-Western, and 141½ by the Great Western. The Birmingham and Liverpool canal passes through the town, and also the Staffordshire and Worcestershire, and the Wyrley and Essington canals.  (There is more of this description).

An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Wolverhampton is to be found on a supplementary page.

Bentley Featherstone Hatherton Hilton Kinvaston

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