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Swinford (Old) in Stafford County England History and GeographySWINFORD (OLD), a parish partly in the southern division of the hundred of SEISDON, county of STAFFORD, but chiefly in the lower division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 1 mile (S.S.E.) from Stourbridge, containing, with the town of Stourbridge, and the hamlet of Amblecoat, 11,227 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £26. 6. 8., and in the patronage of Lord Foley. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The Blue-coat hospital, in this parish, was founded by Thomas Foley, Esq., ancestor of the noble family of that name, and endowed by him with estates now producing upwards of £2000 per annum: it is a commodious brick building, somewhat in the style of a college, pleasantly situated on the road to Bromsgrove. In this noble institution seventy poor boys are boarded, clothed and educated: the original number was sixty, but the increase of income has enabled the feoffees to add ten more. They are chosen from the following parishes and towns, viz., Old Swinford, three; town of Stourbridge, four; Kidderminster, six (three from the borough and three from the foreign); Bewdley, four; Dudley, four; Great Whitley, King's Swinford, Kinver, Harbourn, Hales-Owen, West Bromwich, Bromsgrove, Rowley-Regis, Wednesbury, and Sedgeley, two each; Hagley, Little Whitley, Alvechurch, Pedmore, and Wombourn, one each; and the remaining twenty-four are appointed by the representative of the founder: each boy must, on admission, be between seven and eleven years of age, free from disease, and the son of parents who have never received parochial relief; he is annually provided with a suit of clothes (similar to that worn at Christ's Hospital), a cap, and four pair of shoes and stockings, and, at fourteen years of age, is apprenticed with a premium of £4, and on producing a certificate of good conduct during his apprenticeship, receives at its expiration a gratuity of £15. The establishment is under the direction of nineteen feoffees, who are noblemen, dignitaries of the church, or gentlemen of large landed property, in this or the adjoining counties, and who elect the master, steward, &c. The school at Red-hill is supported with endowments by John Wheeler, Esq., and Henry Glover, Esq., the former of whom granted property for the instruction of twenty poor boys, and for furnishing them with books and stationery, and the latter bequeathed £400, since laid out in lands, for the instruction of six poor boys in reading, writing, and arithmetic, for six years each, providing them with books and stationery, and apprenticing one of them annually, with a premium of £5: two boys have since been added by the trustees, who are the governors of the Stourbridge free grammar school, and the boys on the foundation of both these charities are instructed by the same master. The remainder of Henry Glover's endowment, after all necessary charges for the school are deducted, is distributed amongst the poor of that part of the parish which is in the county of Worcester who do not receive parochial relief, in sums of not more than one shilling per week to each person. Exclusively of the trade connected with the town of Stourbridge, a detailed account of which is given in the article on that place, many of the inhabitants are engaged in the making of nails. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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