Quarry Bank, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Quarry Bank, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Kingswinford parish, Staffordshire. Quarry Bank stands half a mile SE of Brierley Hill, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Brierley Hill. It is ruled by an urban district council of twelve members, and is in the Stowbridge union. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1844. Population, 6732. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £250 with residence. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1847, and is in the Early English style. There are Primitive Methodist, New Connexion Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.

Maps

Online maps of Quarry Bank 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)