Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DARLASTON

DARLASTON, a town, a parish, and a sub-district, in Walsall district, Stafford. The town stands near the Bentley canal and the Birmingham and Wolverhampton railway, 1½ mile NW by N of Wednesbury; and has a station on the railway, and a post office‡ under Wednesbury. It carries on hardware manufacture, in many departments; has iron-foundries, steel-works, and malting mills: and presents the grimy aspect common to places of its class. The parish comprises 901 acres. Real property, £31, 445; of which £4, 423 are in mines, £52 in quarries, and £9, 923 in iron-works. Pop., 12, 884. Houses, 2, 514. The property is subdivided. Coal and ironstone are extensively mined; stone is quarried; and bricks are made. A canal aqueduct, over the Bescot brook, has two arches, and is 120 feet high. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £266.* Patrons, Simeon's Trustees. The church stands on an eminence, in the centre of the town; and is a plain brick building, with a lofty steeple. St. George's vicarage, constituted in 1844, is a separate benefice. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1852; and is a stone structure, in the early English style, with a north-western tower. There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans, and charities £6. -The sub-district includes also part of Wolverhampton parish. Acres, 2, 551. Pop., 13, 230. Houses, 2, 582.


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

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Feature Description: "a town, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Darlaston AP/CP       Darlaston SubD       Walsall RegD/PLU       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Darlaston

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