Moxley, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Moxley, a village in Wednesbury parish, and an ecclesiastical parish partly also in Darlaston and Wolverhampton parishes, Staffordshire. The village stands 1 mile W of Wednesbury, 1 SE of Bilston, and 1 SW of Darlaston; is a modern place, sharing in the manufactories of the Black country; and has a station (Bradley and Moxley) on the G.W. R. It has a post and money order office (T.S.O.) under Wednes-bury; telegraph office, Wednesbury. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1845. Population, 3912. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £275. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is modern. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.

Church Records

Findmypast, in association with the Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archive Service have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Moxley

Maps

Online maps of Moxley 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)