Lye, Worcestershire
Historical Description
Lye, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Old Swinford parish, Worcestershire. The village stands' near the boundary with Staffordshire, 1¼ mile E by N of Stourbridge, is irregularly built, and has a station on the Stourbridge and Birmingham section of the G.W.R. and a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Stourbridge. The township includes the village and a considerable surrounding tract. Acreage, 341; population, 6707. The manufacture of anvils, vices, nails, chains, anchors, galvanized iron goods, and firebricks is largely carried on. Lye Waste, around Lye village, took its name from being an uncultivated appendage to Lye, but became settled by a numerous body of men, who acquired a right of separate freehold on the passing" of an Enclosure Act, and is now thickly built over. The-ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1839. Population½ 6479. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £234 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church was repaired and improved in 1858. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, Primitive and New Connexion Methodist, and Unitarian chapels, a cemetery, and a mechanics' institute.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Worcestershire | |
Civil parish | Old Swinford | |
Hundred | Halfshire | |
Poor Law union | Stourbridge |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Lye from the following:
Land and Property
The full transcript of the Worcestershire section of the Return of Owners of Land, 1873.
Maps
Online maps of Lye are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Worcestershire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Worcestershire 1569 is available on the Heraldry page.