LYE - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"LYE, a township and chapelry united with Lye Waste, in the parish of old Swinford, lower division of the hundred of Halfshire, county Worcester, 2 miles E. of Stourbridge, its post town. It is a station on the Cradley and Stourbridge branch of the Great Western railway. This place has risen into importance within the last few years. Previously it was, as the suffix to its name implies, a dreary waste, and there is still want of regularity in its appearance.

The road from Stourbridge to Birmingham passes through the village. The people are principally employed in the works for the manufacture of anvils, nails, vices, and other iron goods, and in the collieries. The living is a perpetual curacy* [the asterisk denotes that there is a parsonage and glebe belonging to the living] in the diocese of Worcester, value £184. The church, dedicated to our Saviour, has been recently enlarged. The Independents, Wesleyans, Presbyterians, and Primitive Methodists, have chapels. There are National and infant schools."

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