Places in Wolverhampton in 1872

WOLVERHAMPTON

BENTLEY, a township in Wolverhampton parish, Stafford; near the Northwestern railway, 2 miles W by N of Walsall. Acres, 1,650. Real property, £4,327: of which £1,270 are in mines, and £500 are in iron-works. Pop., 346. Houses, 68. The inhabitants are employed largely in collieries and iron-works. Bentley Hall belonged to Col. Lane, who sheltered Charles II. after the battle of Worcester; and was the seat of the late Hon. E. Anson.

BRADLEY, a chapelry in Wolverhampton parish, Stafford; constituted in 1865. Pop., about 4,000. Living, a vicarage. Value, £150. The church was completed in 1868, at a cost of £6,000; and is in the early English style.

FEATHERSTONE, a township in Wolverhampton parish, Stafford; on the Northwestern railway, 6 miles N by E of Wolverhampton. Acres, 488. Real property, £906. Pop., 54. Houses, 13.

FORDHOUSES, a place in the south of Staffordshire, 3 miles from Wolverhampton; with a post-office under Wolverhampton. 

HATHERTON, a township in Wolverhampton parish, Stafford; 3 miles SE of Penkridge. It gives the title of Baron to the family of Littleton. Acres, with Hilton, 2,789. Real property, without Hilton, 2,634. Pop., 415. Houses, 85.

HILTON, a township in Wolverhampton parish, Stafford; 5 miles NNE of Wolverhampton. Real property, £1,256. Pop., 82. Houses, 9. A small Cistertian abbey was founded here, in 1223, by Henry de Audley; and given, at the dissolution, to the Astons of Tixal.

KINVASTON, a township in Wolverhampton parish, Stafford; 2 miles SW of Penkridge. Acres, 233. Pop., 10. Houses, 2. James, the inventor of the fever powders, was a native.

WHITMORE-REANS, a place in the S of Stafford; near Wolverhampton. A Wesleyan chapel was built here in 1863; and a church, partly in 1865, to be afterwards finished. 

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