2 WORCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S clays of Wlhich, frO'IIl their power of res·istancE!l to heat, are No. Place. Area. Pop. 1891. paTmculM'ly suitable far the =aking of glass' crucibles and 380 Upton-on-Severn ... 53,432 ..• 23,466 pot~; wlindow-glass, in its various for=s, and table glass 381 Evesham ..• 46,679 16,069 are also IrulJdo here. Redditch, rong fa=aus for its. IleICld}es, 382 ••• Pershore ... 52,123 13,005 has aLso acquired groot reputation for fish-hooks, fishing­ 383 ..• Droitwich ••. 54,201 •.• 18,242 rods and! tackle, ia the =anufacture of which it surpas'ses 384 •.• Bromsgrove . 5°,397 33,3Il the efforts both of .A=erican and: Cont,in·ent·al fir='S. Iron 385 ... King's Norton . 28,927 127,42:l =akJiIIJg and coal =ining are. chiefi:;- carried on at the The following is a list of the several Unions, with the works and collieries of th~ Right Hon. the Earl of Dud­ parishes contained in them :- ley, co=prismg the -eol.lielr'iellJ and ironstone =in:es in the Dudley dJistJricb, the blast furnaces, the iron making works Rromsgrove Union. at Round Oak, and: vhe Cast1e Hill works, wheore all the .Alvechurch Hagley oooossary =acrunery, pLant anru rolling stook are con­ Belbronghton Hunnington struct-ad. The manufaeture of iron :l>nd Clent Stoke Prior general engiOOering foI'IIl a separate and imparl,ant in­ Coston Hackett TutnaIl and Cobley (hamlet) dustry. Aglricultural machinery and impleom(mt,s, and Frankley Webheath special machinery, are llllrgely manufactured: at Worces­ Grafton Manor ter; iron and' tin-plate working and japanning is, cllrried Droitwich Union. on at W()/I"~ster and Wilden; and the making of hollow­ ~ "ware, both tinlned and ffilameIled, at Stmlirport,; iron tuhes North Claines Marlborough in - the - Vines are proetucedi at Nethmon, and in the same district iron Crowle (Droitwich) and! wire feIIJC~ 'and gat~~ are constructed, and wrought Crutch Oddingley nails, rivets, chains, horse shoes and: screws made, the Dodderhill Ombersley last na:m~dl ~mploying many hands', and requiring very Doverdale St• .Andrew (Droitwich) explmsave and >ellaborate machin€!ry for thei.r production. Elmbridge St. Nicholas (Droitwich) Railway signals are chiefly constructed at Worcester, the Elmley Lovett St. Peter (Droitwich) malmfacture's of which, besides those aLready mentioned', Hadwr Salwarpe include stove gra,tes, kitchen rangE'iS, .and iron castings Hampton Lovett Stock & Bradley Hanburv Tibberton generally; vinegar, now made in thiS' city to the extent • of 2,000,000 gallons. a year; British wines; brushe:~ and Hartlebury Upper Mitton (hamlet) broom~, first made. in 'the city in 1776; ca,rriageg, oanrl Himbleton Upper Warren harness; and gloves, mostly of skin, the- makin,g of which Hindlip Warndon in this city dates' from 1661, when the Worcester Glovers' Huddington Westwood Company was ,mGOrporat€d: there are also in the neigh­ Martin Hussingtree bourhood! very extenSlive nurseries, prod!llcing large quaIlJ­ Dudley Union. tities of fruit and ornam·ental treelS' and s,hrubsl, and Dudley Sedgley (Stafford) flowffi's of every kind; other productions, of tIDe county are Dudley Castle Hill (Stafford) Tipton, or Tibbington (Staf- woollen and! wors,ted, bombazine!, silk, coach lace, plush, Rowley Regis (Sta.fford) ford) horse Stoke Prior; the only place in t.he county for the industry of the Evesham Union. few in England: other industries of Worcestershire are br~,e!ries', Abbots Lench, or Hob Lench Harvington alkali 'Worffis, malt,ings, crate making, coke (hamlet) Hinton-on-the-Green (Glou- burning, tanning, vinegar distilling, vitriol works, comb, Aldington (hamlet) cester) lantern and! button making, leatheT staining, and' paper All Saints (Evesham) North and Middle Littleton manufacture. Ashton UnderhiIl (Glo'ster) Norton and Lench Wick There ate five hundlreds Halfshire, Doddintree, Os­ Aston Somerville (Glo'ster) Offenham walds,low; PerShoro and Blackoohurst: since 1831 there Aston-sub-Edge (Glo'ster) Pebworth (Glo·ster) have been Ib police divisionS'; in W'est Worcestershire, Badsey Rouse Lench 1YorcesteT, Kiddm-minsteir, Hundreid House, and Upton; Bretforton St. Lawrence (Evesham) in East WorceSlbell'!Shire, Droitwich, NorlhfieldJ, PeTsbore, Broadway St. Peter Bengeworth (Eves- Sbourbridge, Dudley and BlockLey. Worcestelr', Bewdley, Child's Wickham (Glo'ster) ham) Droitwich and! Kiddffi"lIlinster have their own police. The C.hurch Honeybourne ~ith Saintbury (Glo'ster) i~ county in the Oxford! circuit, has one court of quarter Poden Sedgeberrow 1il~ssions, and: is' divided into 20 petty S€lSsUonal divisions. Church Lench South Littleton The as..sjze town is lVOTcest,er, ana quarter S'essions are Cleeve Prior Weston-sub-Edge (Glo'ster) held there. Cow Honeybourne (GIo'ster) Wickhamford The county contains 240 civil parishes and parts Hampton, Great and Little WiIlersey (Glo'ster) of B uthers; the shire is partly in the diocese of lVorcester, and .archd'eaconry of Worcester,. and! partly Kidderminster Union. in that of Herefard, ill! the! archdoocorury of Ludlow and Bewdley Lower Mitton with Stourporl rUl"al .d:eI!lJn.elry of East BurfoI'dl. The Worcester H'l"ch­ Broom Ribbesford deaconry is subdivided: into the rural deaneries of Block­ Chaddesley Corbett Rushock ley, Bredon, llromsgrovel, Droitwich, Dnd[ey, Ev~sham, Churchill Stone Feckenham, KiddermiIliS'ter, Pel'shorel, Powick, Bpton, Dowles Upper Arley East WOO'ces1:er amd WeS't Worcestffi'. Kidderminster Borough Wolverley The municipal borcmghsl are. BeJWdl~y, thlll seat of t'he Kidderminster Foreign horn working trade, population in 1891, 2,876; Droitwich King's Norton Union. (of salt,), 4,021; Dud!ley (of iron), 45,74°; Ev~ham (the centre of a fu'uit-growing district), 5,836; Kiddmminst.e'r Bealey King's N orton (of carpets), 24,8°3, and Worcester (glove,s, ceramics and Edgbaston (Warwick) Northfield the celntre. of t1he hop tradJe), 42,9°8. Other towns are Harborne (Warwick) Smethwick (Stafford) • Bromsgrove (of nails), 7,934; Halesowen (of iron), 3,603; Martley Union. ~Ialvern improvin~ (an watering place), 6,107; Oldibury .Abberley Knightwick (of iron), 20,37°; Peil'lliliore (of woolstapling), 3,412; Red­ ,sto~rhrid:ge Alfrick Leigh ditch (of the nood:le manufacture), II,295; Astley Little Witley (of glass an-dJ fira clay), 9,386 ;Stourport (tanmng and Bransford Lulsley carpet making), 3,5°4; and Tenbury, whlich has a college Broadwas Martley 1)£ music, 2,054; 'and there is a Congregational college at Clfton-upon-Teme North Hallow Yardley, near Birmingham Cotheridge Pensax: The Registration Districts are: Doddenham Shelsley Beauchamp No. Place. Area. Pop. 1891. Great Witley Shelsley Walsh, or Little 374 Dudley 17.205 ._. 142 ,70 5 Grimley Shelsley 375 Stonrbridge 16,855 ... 82,824 HiIlhampton (hamlet) Shrawley ( 376 Kidderminster 37,234 ..• 4 1 ,134 Holt Stanford-on-Teme 377 .•• Tenbnry 36,624 7,282 Kenswick Stockton 378 ..• Martley •.• 54,807 15,809 King's Areley Suckley 379 ... Worcester ~. 8,231 ••• 434;6 King's Shelsley (hamlet) Wichenford