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BROCKMOOR, a chapelry in Kingswinford parish, Stafford; adjacent to the West Midland railway, a mile NW of Brierley Hill. It was constituted in 1844; and its Post Town is Brierley Hill. Pop., 3,844. Houses, 721. Most of the inhabitants are employed in coal and iron-works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is a neat structure; and there is a Wesleyan chapel.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Kingswinford CP/AP Staffordshire AncC |
Place: | Brockmoor |
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