Quarry Bank Staffordshire Family History Guide
Quarry Bank is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1844 from Brierley Hill Ecclesiastical Parish.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1845
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1845
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist and New Connexion
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
QUARRY-BANK, a village and a chapelry in Kingswinford parish, Stafford.
The village stands ½ a mile SE of Brierley-Hill r. station, and has a post-office under Brierley-Hill.
The chapelry was constituted in 1844. Pop. in 1861, 4, 790. Houses, 916.
The living is a p.curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1847, at a cost of £3,000; and is in the early English style.
There are chapels for Primitive Methodists and New Connexion Methodists, and national schools.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Staffordshire
- Civil Registration District: Stourbridge
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Himley
- Poor Law Union: Stourbridge
- Hundred: North Seisdon
- Province: Canterbury