Places in Tipton in 1868

TIPTON

"DUDLEY-PORT, a village in the parish of Tipton, S. division of the hundred of Offlow, in the county of Stafford, close to Dudley. Here is the Dudley-Port junction of the Birmingham and Stafford railway."

"GREAT BRIDGE, a village in the parish of Tipton, hundred of South Offlow, county Stafford, 3 miles N.E. of Dudley. Here are numerous coal-pits, in which the people are for the most part employed."

"HORSELEY HEATH, a hamlet in the parish of Tipton, county Stafford, 2 miles from Dudley."

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