Places in Tipton in 1872

TIPTON

DUDLEY-PORT, a village in Tipton parish, Stafford; adjacent to a junction of railways, 1 mile ENE of Dudley. It has a station at the railway junction.

HORSELEY-HEATH, a hamlet in Tipton parish, Stafford; near Dudley.

OCKER-HILL, a hamlet and a chapelry in Tipton parish, Stafford. The hamlet lies on the Walsall and Wolverhampton railway, near the Birmingham canal, 1 mile SW of Wednesbury; and has a station on the railway. The chapelry was constituted in 1845; and its post town is Tipton. Rated property, £8,500. Pop. in 1861, 3,787. Houses, 726. The property is subdivided. The inhabitants share in the iron manufactories and other industry of Tipton and Wednesbury. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1850, at a cost of about £2,500; and is an edifice of blue brick, in the later English style.

[Description(s) from The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]