A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
CRADLEY, a town and a township-chapelry in Hales-owen parish, Worcester. The town stands on the river Stour, at the boundary with Stafford. near the Dudley canal, 2½ miles ENE of Stourbridge; is connected by a branch railway with the West Midland at Stourbridge; has a post office under Brierley Hill; and carries on extensive manufactures in iron and hardware. The chapelry includes the town, some manufacturing dependencies, and some rural tracts. Acres, 732. Real property, £8, 471; of which £1, 100 are in mines. Pop., 4, 075. Houses, 779. The property is not much divided. The manor belongs to Lord Lyttleton. A saline spring, called the Lady well, in much medicinal repute, is in a picturesque wooded vale. Coal and ironstone abound on the lands of Netherend. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £116. Patron, the Vicar. of Halesowen. The church is tolerable; and there are chapels for Baptists, Unitarians, Wesleyans, and New Connexion Methodists, and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a town and a township-chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Worcestershire AncC |
| Place: | Cradley |
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