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Tipton in Stafford County England History and GeographyTIPTON, a parish in the southern division of the hundred of OFFLOW, county of STAFFORD, 1½ mile (N.E.) from Dudley, containing, according to the last census, 11,546 inhabitants, which number has since greatly increased. This place, which is situated nearly in the centre of an extensive and rich mining district, has progressively risen from an inconsiderable village to its present extent and importance, from the abundant and apparently exhaustless mines of coal and iron-stone which are found under almost every acre of its surface. The former is of superior quality, and is found in strata of thirty feet in thickness, and the latter is wrought to a very considerable extent, affording together employment to an immense population, of whose dwellings, with the exception of some belonging to the superintendents of the works, the village principally consists. There are not less than nine forges, with blast furnaces and other apparatus, for the manufacture of pig-iron, of which, on an average, more than seventy tons per week are made, and in which the weekly consumption of coal is not less than six hundred tons. Nails and hinges of every kind, fenders, fireirons, and boilers for steam-engines, are manufactured to a great extent; and there are also large manufactories for tinned plates, soap, muriatic potash, and red lead. The trade is much facilitated by the Birmingham canal and several of its collateral branches, which intersect the parish, whereby a communication is established with almost every line of inland navigation, and the produce of its mines and manufactures is conveyed to many of the principal towns in the kingdom. The river Trent has its source within a few hundred yards of the western boundary of the parish. Tipton is within the jurisdiction of the county magistrates, and also within that of a court of requests for the parishes of Hales-Owen, Rowley-Regis, West Bromwich, Harborne, and the manor of Bradley, in the parish of Wolverhampton, in the counties of Worcester, Salop, and Stafford, respectively, established by an act passed in the 47th of George III., for the recovery of debts not exceeding £5. Officers for the internal regulation of the parish are annually appointed at the court leet of the lord of the manor. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Prebendary of Prees, or Pipa Minor, in the Cathedral Church of Lichfield, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield. The ancient church, dedicated to St. Martin, having become greatly dilapidated many years since, is now a ruin, and a neat and commodious new church of brick has been erected. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. In 1796, Mr. Solomon Woodall gave £650 for the foundation and endowment of a school, and several subsequent donations and benefactions have been made, which, aided by subscriptions, are appropriated to the support of several National schools, in which more than one thousand children receive instruction: there are also Sunday schools in connexion with the established church and the dissenting congregation, supported by subscription. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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