Netherton

NETHERTON, a district chapelry, in the united parishes of St. Thomas and St. Edmund, Dudley, union of Dudley, Lower division of the hundred of Halfshire, Dudley and E. divisions of the county of Worcester; containing 129 persons. This place is situated in an extensive mining and manufacturing district, and the inhabitants are mostly employed in furnaces for smelting iron-ore, and in the making of nails, which is carried on to a great extent. There are large collieries in the immediate neighbourhood, in full operation, and several mines of ironstone. A neat chapel, dedicated to St. Andrew, was erected in 1831, by grant of the Parliamentary Commissioners, on ground given by the late Earl of Dudley: the living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £220; patron, the Vicar of Dudley. Here are places of worship for Wesleyans, Baptists, Methodists of the New Connexion, and Primitive Methodists.