Place:Quarry Bank, Staffordshire, England

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NameQuarry Bank
TypeUnknown
Located inStaffordshire, England
source: Family History Library Catalog

A village and chapelry in King Swinford Parish, Staffordshire. The village stands 1/2 mile SE of Brierley Hill railway station, and has a post office under Brierley Hill. The chapelry was constituted in 1844. Population in 1861 , 4,790. Houses, 916. The living (vicar's livings) is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. The church was built in 1847, at a cost of 3,000. There are chapels for Primitive Methodists and New Connexion Methodists, and national schools.

[Adapted from Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales by John M. Wilson, London: A Fullarton & co., 1870]


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