2 WORCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'& ever, confined to porcelain, but are extended to the The Registration Dist,ricts· are : making oil printed and encaustic tiles, and of diachroma­ tized ~\lood slabs, serving the ·same purpose, the works for No. Place. Area. Pop. 189I. Dudley 20 2 which, now belonging to a Limited Company, are situated 374 ••• • ••• 17, 5 ..• 14 ,7°5. at Rainbow Hill. :Fire bricks, porcelain baths, clay re­ 375 ••• Stourbridge ••• 16,855 • •• 82,824~ torts and similar goods are made at Stourbridge, and 376 ••• Kidderminster ••• 37,234 • •• 4 1 ,r34- glass has long been a product of this neighbourhood, the 377 ••• Tenbnry ••• 36,624 ••• 7,282' clays of Wlhich, from their pOWffi' of resistance t<o heat, are 378 ••• Martley ••• 54,807 • •• 15,809 paTticularly suitable fcxr the making of glass crucibles- and 379 ••• Worcester • •• 8,2:,lI • •• 43,966. pob; window-glass, in it,sl various forms, and table glass 380 ••• Upton-on-Severn • •• 53,432 • •• 23,466 are also made here. Redditch, long famous for its needles, 38 l ••• Evesham • •• 46,679 • •• 16,069 has also acquired, great reputation. for fish-hooks, fishing­ 382 ••• Pershore • •• 52,123 • •• 13,005 rods and: tackle, in tha manufacture of which it surpasses 383 ••• Droitwich • •• 54,20r • •• 18,242 the efforts both of .American and Continent,al firms. Iron 384 ••• "Bromsgrove ••• 5°,397 • •• 33,3II 8 malting and coal mining are chiefly cal'l'ied OIll at the 3 5 ••• King's Norton. • •• 28,927 • •• I27,422 works and collieries of the Right Hon. the Earl of Dud­ ley, c"omprising the colliffi'iesi and ironsltona mines in the The following is a list of the several Unions, with thft Dudley dtistrict, the bla,st furnaces, the iron making works parishes contained in them :- at Round Oak, ·and the Castle Hill works" wh61re all the Ill€JOOS.sa.ry machinery, p1a.nb and: rolling stook. are con· Bromsgrove Union. structed. 'l':he manufacture of iron and of chain cables is also pursued at Nethe;rton, at which place there is a .Alvechurch Hagley testing Ihouse licensed! by the Board of Trade for th~ Belbroughton Hunnington testing of chains and cables requiring to be officially Bentley Pauncefoot, or Upper Pedmore sbampedJ; near Dudley t'M making of iroIll bridges and & Lower Bentley Redditch general engineering foI"lll a separate and important in­ Bromsgrove Redditch (North) dustry. Agricultural machinery and :implements, and Bromsgrove (North) Romsley special machinery, are lllirgely manufactured, at 'Vorces­ Clent Stoke Prior ter; iron. and tin-plate working and japanning is carried Coston Hackett Tutnall and Cobler (hamlet)' on at Worcester and Wi1den; and the making of hollow­ Frankley Webheath ware, both tinned and ooamelled, at Stonrport; ir()n tubes Grafton Manor are produced! at Netnerton, and in the same district iron anm wire fences ,and gates are cons,tructed, and wrought Droitwich Union. nails, rivets, chains, horse shoes and screws: made, the Claines (North) Hindlip last; n3med employing many hands, andJ requiring very Crowle Huddington expensive and .elaborate lllachin~ for their production. Crutch l\Iarlborough - in - the - Vines. Railway signals arel chiefly constructed at Worcester, t.he (Droitwich) manufactures of which, besides those a1ready mentioned, Dodderhill Doverdale Martin Hussingtree include stove grates, kitchen ranges, and iron castings Mitton(Upper) (hamlet) generally; vinegar, now made in this city to the extent Droitwich (St. .Andrew) Droitwich (St. Nicholas) Oddingley of 2,000,000 gallons a year; British wines; brush.eis' and Ombersley brooms, first made in the city in 1776; caJ:'Tiages,:and Droitwich (St. Peter) Elmbridge Salwarpe harness; and gloves, mostly of skin, the making of which Elmley Lovett Stock & Bradley in this city dates' from 1661, when the Worcester Glovers' Hadzor Tibberton Company was incorporated: there are als() in the neigh­ Hampton Lovett Upper Warren bourhood ve['y extensiive nurseries, producing large quan­ Hanburv• 'Varndon titi8ls of fruit and ornamental trees and shrubs, and Hartlebury West~ood floweril of every kind; othffi' productions of the county are Himbleton woollen and worsted, bombazine, silk, coach lace, plush, horsehair ood ribbons. Thea-e are saW works at Stoke Prior, the only place in the county for the indUitry of the Dudley Union. few in England: other industries of Worcestershire are Dudley Sedgley (Stafford) alkali works" brerweTies·, maltings, crate making, coke Dudley Castle Hill (Stafford) Tipton, or Tibbington (Staf- burning, tanning, vinegar distilling, vitriol works, comb, Rowley Regis (Stafford) ford) lantern and! button making, leather staining, and: paper manufacture. Evesham Union. There are five hundTeds Halfshire, Doddintree, Os­ waldslow; Persh{)I~e and Blackenhurst: since 1831 there Abbots Lench, or Hob Leuch Evesham (St. Peter Benge- have been 10 police divisionS'; in West Worcestershire, (hamlet) worth) Worceoster, KidderminsteT, Hundred House, and Upton; Aldington (hamlet) Hampton (Great and Littler in East Worcesibffi"S1hire, Droitwich, Northfield, Pershore, Ashton Underhill (Glo'ster) Harvington Stourbridge, Dudley and Blockley. 'Worcester, Bewdley. Aston Somerville (Glo'ster) Hinton-on-the-Greeu (Glou- Droitwich and Kidd.erminster have their own police. The Aston-sub-Edge (Glo'ster) cester) county is in the Oxford circuit, has one court of quarter Badsey Littleton (North and Middle), sesslions, and is divided mto 20 petty sessUonal divisions. Bretforton Littleton (South) The assize town is 'Worcester, and quarter sessions are Broadway Norton and Lench Wick held there. Child's Wickham (Glo'ster) Offenham The county contains 242 civil parishes and parts Church Honeybourne with Pebworth (Glo'ster) of 5 others; the shire is partly in the diocese of Poden' Rouse Lench Worcester, and archdeaconry of 'Worcester, and! partly Church Lench Saintbury (Glo'ster) in that of Hereford, in the archdeacomy of Ludlow and Cleeve Prior Sedgeberrow rural ,d:elaneJry of East Burford. The Worcester arch­ Cow Honeybourne (Glo'ster) Weston-sub-Edge (GIo'ster) deaconry is subdivided into the rural deaneries of Block­ Evesham (All Saints) Wickhamford ley, Bre-don, BromsgrovEll, Droitwich, Dudley, Evelsham, Evesham (St. Lawrence) Willersey (GIo'ster) Feckenham, Kidderminster, Pershore, Powick, Upton, East Worcester and West Worcester. Kidderminster Union. The municipaJ. boroughs are Bewdler, the seat of the Arley Upper Kidderminster Foreign horn wo·rking trad·e, population in 1891, 2,876; Droitwich Bewdley Lower Mitton with Stourport. (of salt). 4,02I; Dudley (of iron), 45,74°; Evesham (the Broom Ribbesford centre of a fruit-growing district), 5,836; Kidd~rminster Chaddesley Corbett Rushock (of carpets), 24,8°3, and Worcester (gloves, oeramics and Churchill Stone the centre Qf fue hop trade), 42,908. Other towns are Dowles Wolverley I1romsgrove (of nails), 7,934; Ralesowen (of iron), 3,603; Kidderminster Borough Malvern (an impRoving watering place), 6,I07; Oldbury (of iron), 20,37°; Penshore (of woolsiapling), 3,4I2; Red­ King's Norton Union. ditch (of the needle manufactu:re), 11,295; Stourb-ridge (of glass and fir.e! clay), 9,386; Stourport (tanning and Balsall Heath King's Norton carpet making), 3,504; and Tenbury, which has a college Beoley Northfield flf music, 2,054; and there is a. Congregational college at Edgbaston (Warwick) Smethwick (ftafford) Yardley, near Birmingham. Harborne (Warwick).