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Sedgley in Stafford County England History and GeographySEDGLEY, a parish in the northern division of the hundred of SEISDON, county of STAFFORD, 3½ miles (S.) from Wolverhampton, containing 17,195 inhabitants. This populous parish is situated in the midst of a country abounding with coal, iron-stone, and limestone, the working of which furnishes employment to the greater part of the inhabitants, who have increased nearly three thousand in number since 1821. The iron is manufactured in a variety of ways, both into pig-iron in furnaces, and into wrought or malleable in mills, which latter is again converted into bars, rods, hoops, hurdles, nails, coffee-mills, locks, &c. A great extent of the Essington and Wyrley canal intersects the parish in various directions, affording a ready transit for these articles. A court leet is annually held, at which a constable is chosen. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £5. 12. 8½., and in the patronage of the Earl of Dudley. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is a beautiful edifice in the purest style of English architecture, with side aisles, vaulted nave, and clerestory windows: it was completed in 1829, at the sole expense of the Earl of Dudley, and will contain one thousand three hundred persons. In the hamlet of Lower Gornall, in this parish, is a chapel dedicated to St. James, which was erected about nine years ago, and in which are five hundred free sittings, the Incorporated Society for the building and enlargement of churches having contributed £500 towards defraying the expense: the living is a perpetual curacy, endowed with £400 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Earl of Dudley. A chapel of ease has also been recently erected at Coseley, calculated to contain nearly two thousand persons, with one thousand one hundred and fifty-six free sittings, at an expense of £10,536, partly arising from subscriptions in the parish, and from a grant by the parliamentary commissioners. There are two places of worship belonging to the Particular Baptists, three to Wesleyan Methodists, one to Primitive Methodists, and one each to Independents and Presbyterians; the Roman Catholics have also two chapels. Here is a small bequest by Samuel Timmins, for teaching poor children; and an excellent National school, for two hundred boys and two hundred girls, has been recently erected by the Earl of Dudley: there is also one at Gornall, for one hundred boys and one hundred girls, both supported by voluntary contributions. The emerinite, and the singular fossil called the 'Dudley locust,' are found chiefly in this parish, the latter only in an isolated limestone rock, termed the Wren's Nest Hill. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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