Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for QUINTON

QUINTON, a chapelry in Halesowen parish, Worcester; adjacent to Staffordshire, 3 miles S E by S of Oldbury r. station, and 4 W S W of Birmingham. It was constituted in 1841; comprises the townships of Cake-more, Ridgacre, Warley-Salop, and Warley-Wigorn; and has a post-office under Birmingham. Pop. in 1861, 2, 495. Houses, 480. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £220.* Patron, the Rector of Halesowen. The church was built in 1841; and is in the early English style, with bell turret. There are a national school and a free school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Worcestershire AncC
Place: Quinton

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