Darlaston in 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]

"DARLASTON, a parish in the S. division of the hundred of Offlow, in the county of Stafford, 22 miles S.W. of Walsall, 2 E. of Bilston, and 1 mile N.W. of Wednesbury. It has a station on the Birmingham and Wolverhampton section of the London and North-Western railway. The village, which is situated in the midst of a rich mining and manufacturing district, is lighted with gas from the extensive works at West Bromwich, about 4 miles distant.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield, value £266, in the patronage of Simeon's Trust. The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, is a plain brick structure. The charities amount to £6 per annum.

There is also a district church, dedicated to St. George, the living of which is a perpetual curacy, value £150, in the patronage of the crown and bishop alternately. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Independents; also, National and Sunday schools."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]