Brockmoor, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Brockmoor, an ecclesiastical parish in Kingswinford parish, Staffordshire, ½ a mile NW of Brierley Hill. It was constituted in 1844, and it has a post office (T.S.O.) under Brierley Hill. Population, 3615. Most of the inhabitants are employed in coal and iron works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is a building of firebrick in the Early English style, and there are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Brockmoor from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Brockmoor)

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Staffordshire is online.

Maps

Online maps of Brockmoor 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 Staffordshire newspapers online:

• Staffordshire Advertiser
• Tamworth Herald
• Lichfield Mercury
• Staffordshire Sentinel
• Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser