Reddal Hill (Cradley Heath) Staffordshire Family History Guide

Reddal Hill is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1844 from Rowley Regis Ecclesiastical Parish.

Alternative names: Cradley Heath, Redhall Hill

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1844
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1845

Nonconformists include: Methodist New Connexion

Adjacent Parishes

• Quarry Bank
• Rowley Regis
• Cradley
• Dudley St Thomas
• Halesowen

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

REDDAL-HILL, a chapelry in Rowley-Regis parish, Stafford; adjacent to Worcestershire, 2½ miles E by S of Brierley-Hill r. station, and 2½ S by E of Dudley. It was constituted in 1844; and its post town is Dudley. Rated property, about £16,000. Pop. in 1861, 10,349. Houses, 1,907. The property is much subdivided. The inhabitants are chiefly miners, nailers, and chain-makers. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £300. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1847, and is in the early English style. There are several dissenting chapels and an endowed school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Staffordshire, Reddal-Hill – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Reddal-Hill, 1845-1855
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Reddal-Hill (Staffordshire)

Parish registers and miscellany for Reddal-Hill, Staffordshire, 1844-1905
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Reddal-Hill (Staffordshire); Dudley Public Libraries. Archives and Local History Department

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

• County: Staffordshire
• Civil Registration District: Dudley
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Worcester
• Rural Deanery: Kidderminster
• Poor Law Union: Dudley
• Hundred: North Seisdon
• Province: Canterbury