Pensnett, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Pensnett, a hamlet and an ecclesiastical parish in Kingswinford parish, Staffordshire. The hamlet lies adjacent to Worcestershire, near Brierley Hill station on the G.W.R.,and 2 miles SW of Dudley, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Dudley. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1844. Population, 4997. There is a parish council consisting of four members. The inhabitants are employed in the mining of coal, the smelting of iron ore, and the manufacture of hardware and glass. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £240 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Dudley.

Administration

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

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Pensnett from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Pensnett 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)