Amblecote, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Amblecoat or Amblecote, a township and an ecclesiastical parish, in Old Swinford parish, Staffordshire. The former stands on the southern verge of the county, at the river Stour; and is suburban to Stourbridge, being separated from it only by the river. Post town, Stourbridge. Acreage, 665; population, 2876. The inhabitants are employed chiefly in glass-works, collieries, and iron-works. There is an extensive bed of fireclay in the neighbourhood. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; value, £260. The church stands on an eminence, was opened in 1842, and is a pleasing structure of fire-brick in the Early English style.

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.

Church Records

The register dates from the year 1842.

Churches

Church of England

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Amblecote from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Amblecote 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