Wombourne in 1868

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

"WOMBOURNE, a parish in the S. division of Seisdon hundred, county Stafford, 5 miles N.W. of Dudley, 4 S.W. of Wolverhampton, and 4 N. of Brierley Hill. The parish is intersected by the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal, and is divided into three liberties, called Orton, Swindon, and Wombourn, with Woodford Grange extra parochial. The population in 1861 was 2,236.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield, value with Trysull annexed, £608, in the patronage of trustees. The church, dedicated to St. Benedict, contains a monument by Chantrey to the Marsh family. The Independents and Methodists of the New Connexion have chapels, and the Wesleyans one at Swindon. The charities produce about £5 per annum."

"ORTON, a liberty in the parish of Wombourne, S. division of Seisdon hundred, county Stafford, 3 miles S.W. of Wolverhampton. It is situated on the Birmingham canal."

"SWINDON, a liberty in the parish of Wombourne, S. division of Seisdon hundred, county Stafford, 5 miles W. of Dudley, on the Stafford and Birmingham canal."

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