Tipton in 1872

TIPTON, or TIBBINGTON, a parish in Dudley district, Stafford; on the Birmingham canal, and on the Stour Valley, the South Staffordshire, the Great Western, and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton railways, 1 mile NNE of Dudley. It contains Horseley Heath Dudley-Port, Tipton-Green, Princes-End, Toll-End, and part of Greatbridge villages; and it has seven railway stations wharves, a head post-office of Tipton at Horseley-Heath, receiving post-offices at Princes-End, Tipton-Green, and Greatbridge, four police stations, a police and petty-sessions court-house, a board of health, and a plentiful supply of good water.

Acres, 3,020. Real property, £130,225; of which £32 are in quarries, £38,875 in mines, and £43,549 ironworks. Pop. in 1351, 24 872 in 1861, 28,870. Houses, 5,695. The property is much subdivided. Iron-stone and coal abound; fire-bricks cement, soap, grease, malt, tiles, and nails are made; and heavy iron goods, including anchors, cables, pit-chains, iron-fenders, fire-irons, and all kinds of steam-engine machinery are largely manufactured.

The parish is ecclesiastically cut into the four sections of St. Martin, St. Paul, St John, and St Mark. The livings are all perpetual curacies in the diocese of Lichfield. Value of St. Martin, £750; of St Paul., £300; of St John. £50; of St Mark, £150. Patron of St Martin, S. S. Lloyd, Esq.: of St. Paul, the Incumbent of St Martin; of St John, the Incumbent of St Martin; of St Mark, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. Three of the churches are recent; and the fourth, excepting the tower, was recently rebuilt. There are 15 dissenting chapels, several national schools, a British school, and charities £69. One of the dissenting chapels, Wesleyan, was built in 1866, at a cost of £5,000. 

An 1872 Gazetteer description of the following places in Tipton is to be found on a supplementary page.

• Dudley-Port
• Horseley-Heath
• Ocker-Hill

[Description(s) from The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]