Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COOKLEY

COOKLEY, a chapelry in Wolverley parish, Worcester; adjacent to the West Midland railway, 2½ miles NNE of Kidderminster. It was constituted in 1849; and it has a post office under Kidderminster. Pop., 1, 454. Houses, 299. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £200.* Patron, W. Hancock, Esq. The church is good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Wolverley CP/AP       Worcestershire AncC
Place: Cookley

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