COSELEY is a town and hamlet in Sedgley civil parish and is 1 1/2 miles north-west from Tipton, 1 mile south from Bilston, 11 miles north from Birmingham, 3 north from Dudley, 3 south-east from Wolverhampton and 123 from London, in the Kingswinford division of the county, North Seisdon hundred, Sedgley petty sessional division, Dudley union and county court district, rural deanery of Himley, archdeaconry of Stafford and diocese of Lichfield; with Brierley, Ettingshall and Woodsetton, it comprises the Lower Division of Sedgley, and was formerly governed by a local board, but under the provisions of the Local Government Act, 1894 (56 & 57 Viet. cap. 73), an Urban District Council has been established.
The London and North Western (Stour Valley branch) Railway Company have a station at Deepfields ; and there is a station of the Great Western railway at Daisy Bank. The district is supplied with water by the South Staffordshire Waterworks Company.
Christ Curch ecclesiastical parish was formed March 13, 1832 ; the church is a modern building of stone, in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, chapel, south porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 8 bells : the church was enlarged in 1866 by the addition of a side chapel, which has several stained windows, the gift of the Rev. Thomas Slater M.A. late vicar of Coseley, to whom a memorial window was erected in 1886 by his widow : the church was restored in 1888 at a cost of £1,093, and affords good sittings, all of which are free. The register dates from the year 1830. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £300, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lichfield, and held since 1883 by the Rev. William Spencer M.A. of Merton College, Oxford, and surrogate. St. Mary the Virgin's is an ecclesiastical parish, formed Dec. 16, 1873, from the civil parish of Sedgley ; the church at Hurst Hill, built at a cost of about , £4,000 and consecrated in 1872, is a building of stone, in the Perpendicular sty le, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave and aisles, and has 550 sittings. The register dates from the year 1874. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £250, with residence, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1892 by the Rev. John Knight-Law B.A. Of Christ's College, Cambridge.
WEST COSELEY is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1884: the church of St. Chad, erected in 1883, at a cost of £3,850, on a site given by the Earl of Dudley, who also contributed £1,000 to the building fund, was consecrated in 1883, and occupies a striking position on a considerable elevation about midway between Coseley and Sedgley ; the church is of red brick, in the Early English style, from designs by Mr. T. H. Fleming, architect, of Wolverhampton, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, western porch, chapel and a central turret containing one bell : there are 500 sittings. The register dates from the year . The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £223, net 4200, and held since 1879 by the Rev. George Castriot De Renzi M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. There is a mission church at SODOM, connected with the parish of St. Mary ; another in LADYMOOR, connected with Christ Church ; and one at SWAN VILLAGE in Sedgley parish, attached to St. Chad's. There are several Baptist, Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels : and a Unitarian chapel, built in 1876 on the site of the ancient building called the Old Meeting House and richly endowed.
Here are coal mines, nail, hook and chain works, iron foundries, sheet iron works, stove grate works, cement works, maltings and bricklields ; screws are also made.
The Earl of Dudley is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The area of the urban district is 3,704 acres ; the population in 1891 was 21,899; the population of the ecclesiastical parishes in 1891 was, Christ Church, 8,854; St. Chad, 4,198 and St. Mary, the Virgin, 4,201
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Town SUB-POST & M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity & insurance Office, Coseley.- John Mills, sub-postmaster. Letters received from Bilston at 9 a.m. 2.30 & 7.30 p.m. ; dispatched at 9 a.m. 2.30 & 7.30 p.m. Telegraph office at Deepfields
Town SuB-POST, M. O. & T. O. & S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity & Insurance Office, Deepfields.-Miss Phoebe Wise, sub-postmistress. Letters received from Bilston at 7.15 a.m. 1.30 & 6.45 p.m. ; dispatched at 9 & 10 a.m. 2.30, 7.30 & 8.30 p.m
WALL LETTER Boxes:-Hurst Hill, cleared at 8.30 a.m. 2.15 & 7.15 P.m.; Broad lanes, cleared at 9.40 a.m. 3.15 & 7.45 p.m. ; Coppice, cleared at 7.45 a.m. & 7 p.m. ;
Church road, cleared at 9 a.m. 3 & 7.3o p.m. ; Cinder hill, cleared at 8.30 a.m. 2.30 & 7.15 p. m
URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.
Offices, Green street, Roseville. Day of meeting, first tuesday in the month at 6 p.m.
MEMBERS.
Richard Clayton (chairman)
George M. Morgan
Rev. Henry Eachus
George Ray
Job E. East
William Henry Robinson
William Hawkins
John Shorthouse
William Henry Hawthorne
Frederick Slater
Samuel Jackson
William Smout
Edward Jordan
Joseph Taft
James Lamb
John Walters
Charles Lathe
Josiah Whitehouse
William Mobberley
Edward Wones
Clerk, Joseph Smith, Gate street, Sedgley
Treasurer, Thomas Gilbert, Birmingham District & Counties Bank, Wolverhampton
Medical Officer of Health, Joseph Geo. Clendinnen, Alpha ho
Surveyor, Charles Wm. Shackleton, Green street, Roseville
Sanitary Inspector & Inspector of Canal Boats & Dairies, John Mills, Post Office, Old Meeting road
Collector, Albert J. Sherwin, Hurst hill
County Police Station, Avenue road, Sergeant Henry R Ward, in charge & 4 constables
PUBLIC OFFICERS:-
Assessor & Collector of Assessed Taxes, Jos. Sherwin, Hurst Hill
Clerk to Sedgley School Board, Albert Evans Greenway, Church road
Registrar of Births & Deaths, Sedgley sub-district, Dudley union, John William Thompson, Castle street, Roseville
Relieving Officer, Sedgley No. 2 district, Dudley union, W. Hughes, Ebenezer street
PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of Services :-
Christ Church, Rev. William Spencer M.A. vicar; 8 & 11 a.m. & 6.30 P.M.; daily 8.45 a.m. & wed. 7.30 p.m
St. Chad's, Rev. George Castriot de Renzi M. A. vicar; 8 & 11 a. m. & 6.30 p.m.; daily 8.45 a. m. & wed. 7.30 p.m
St. Mary the Virgin, Rev. John Knight-Law, vicar ; 11 a.m. & 3 & 6.30 P.m.; fri. 7.30 p.m
Mission Church, Ladymoor, 6.30 p.m. & thurs. 7.30 p.m
Mission Church, Sodom, 6.30 p.m. & thurs. 7.30 p.m
Baptist, Coppice, 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; wed. 7 p.m
Baptist, Dark House lane, Rev. George Dunnett ; 10.30 a. m. & 6 p.m.; wed. 7 P. m
Baptist, Roseville, 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; thurs. 7 p.m
Baptist, West Coseley, 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; wed. 7 p.m
Primitive Methodist, Walbrook, 2.30 & 6 p.m. ; wed. 7 p.m
Primitive Methodist, Sodom, 2.30 & 6 p.m. ; tues. 7 p.m
Unitarian, Old Meeting road, Rev. Henry Eachus ; I I a.m.& 6.30 P. m
Wesleyan, Hurst Hill, 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; wed. 7.15 p.m
Wesleyan, Ladymoor, 10.30 a.m. & 6 p. m. ; wed. 7 p.m
Wesleyan, Roseville, 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; thurs. 7 p.m
SCHOOLS:-
Board (Sedgley), Daisy Bank (mixed & infants), erected in 1878, for 256 children & 235 infants ; average attendance, 234 children & 174 infants ; William Jones, master ; Miss Hannah Walters, mistress
Board (Sedgley), Mount Pleasant (mixed & infants), erected in 1879, for 343 children & 150 infants ; average attendance, 238 children & 121 infants ; William H. Price,
master ; Miss Rudge, infants' mistress
Board (Hurst Hill) (mixed & infants), built in 1894, for 200 children & 123 infants ; average attendance, 186 children & 100 infants ; John Dunton, master ; Miss
Parnell, infants' mistress
Christ Church National (mixed & infants), for 350 children & 200 infants; average attendance, 300 children & 180 infants; Edward Nicholls, master ; Mrs. Louisa Nicholls,
mistress
St. Chad's National, West Coseley (mixed & infants), for 300 children & 160 infants ; average attendance, 300 children & 160 infants; Robert Thomas Evans, master;
Mrs. Annie Pugh, infants' mistress
St. Mary's National, boys (Can lane) & girls (Hurst Hill), erected in 1832 & 1878 respectively, for 186 boys & 150 girls ; average attendance, 190 boys & 132 girls ; Charles
Cadwallader, master ; Mrs. Martha Cadwallader, mistress
British, Darkhouse (mixed & infants), erected in 1837, for 200 children & 100 infants ; average attendance, 140 children & 64 infants ; William Hartell, master ; Miss
Jane Jones, mistress
RAILWAY STATIONS :-
(L. & N. W.) Deeplields, William Tatton, station master
(G. W.) Daisy Bank, Clement Mole, station master
COSELEYPRIVATE RESIDENTS. |
Harris James, Upper Ettingshall road |
COSELEYCOMMERCIAL Allden Joseph, boot maker, Hurst bill |
Jones William, jun. scrap iron dealer, Can lane |
DEEPFIELDSCOMMERCIAL Birch Edward & Sons, iron manufactrs |
Howell John, coal owner, Rookery collry |
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