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A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Halfshire Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "HALFSHIRE, a hundred in Worcester, forming the northern part of the county, lying contiguous to Salop [Shropshire], Stafford, and Warwick, and cut into two divisions, lower and upper. The [lower division] contains Belbroughton parish, nine other parishes, and parts of five others. Acres: 45,575. Population in 1851: 74,425. Houses: 14,351. The [upper division] contains Bromsgrove parish, thirteen other parishes, and parts of four others. Acres: 84,555. Population in 1851: 54,122. Houses: 10,660. Population of both divisions in 1861: 157,244. Houses: 31,539.
Halfshire Hundred included the towns of Bromsgrove and Kidderminster. As will be seen by this map from Wikimedia Commons, the hundreds of Worcestershire tended to contain numerous detached sections.
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List of Parishes with chapelries and townships
Ancient Parish | Parish Status | Subsidiary Places | Subsidiary Place Status | Notes
| Belbroughton | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Bromsgrove | parish (ancient), civil parish | Grafton Manor | extra parochial area, chapelry, civil parish |
| | | Kings Norton | chapelry, civil parish |
| Broome | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Chaddesley Corbett | parish (ancient), civil parish | Rushock | chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | | Stone | chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Church Lench | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Churchill (near Spetchley) | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Clent | parish (ancient), civil parish | Rowley Regis | chapelry, civil parish |
| Crutch | extra parochial area, civil parish | | |
| Dodderhill | parish (ancient), civil parish | Dodderhill in Liberties | parochial area, civil parish |
| | | Elmbridge | chapelry, civil parish |
| | | Westwood | extra parochial area, chapelry, civil parish |
| Doverdale | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Droitwich | civil parish | | |
| Droitwich St. Andrew | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Droitwich St. Mary de Witton | parish (ancient) | | |
| Droitwich St. Nicholas | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Droitwich St. Peter | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Dudley | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Dudley Castle | extra parochial area, civil parish | | |
| Dudley St. James | parish (ancient) | | |
| Elmley Lovett | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Feckenham | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Hadsor | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Hagley | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Halesowen | township, parish (ancient), civil parish | Cakemore | township, civil parish |
| | | Cradley | chapelry, civil parish |
| | | Frankley | chapelry, civil parish |
| | | Hasbury | township, civil parish |
| | | Hawne | township, civil parish |
| | | Hill | township, civil parish |
| | | Hunnington | township, civil parish |
| | | Illey | township, civil parish |
| | | Lapal | township, civil parish |
| | | Lutley | hamlet, civil parish |
| | | Oldbury | township, civil parish |
| | | Quinton | township, civil parish |
| | | Romsley | township, civil parish |
| | | Warley Salop | township, civil parish |
| | | Warley Wigorn | township, civil parish |
| Hampton Lovett | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Hartlebury | township, parish (ancient), civil parish | Upper Mitton | hamlet, civil parish |
| Ipsley | parish (ancient), civil parish | | | in Warwickshire until 1931
| Kidderminster | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Kidderminster Borough | township, civil parish | | |
| Kidderminster Foreign | township, civil parish | | |
| Kington | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Lower Mitton | township, civil parish | | |
| Marlborough in the Vines | extra parochial area, civil parish | | |
| Northfield | parish (ancient), civil parish | Cofton Hackett | chapelry, civil parish |
| Oldswinford | township, parish (ancient), civil parish | Amblecote | hamlet, chapelry | in Staffordshire until 1974
| | | Lye | township, civil parish |
| | | Stourbridge | township, civil parish |
| | | Upper Swinford | township, civil parish |
| | | Wollaston | township, civil parish |
| | | Wollescote | township, civil parish |
| Paper Mills | extra parochial area, civil parish | | |
| Pedmore | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Salwarpe | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Tardebigge | parish (ancient), civil parish | Bentley Pauncefoot | township, civil parish |
| | | Redditch | chapelry, civil parish |
| | | Tutnall and Cobley | township, civil parish |
| | | Webheath | township, civil parish |
| Upton Warren | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Warley | civil parish | | |
| Wolverley | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Yardley | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
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Research tips
- Ordnance Survey Maps of England and Wales - Revised: Worcestershire illustrates the parish boundaries of Worcestershire when rural districts were still in existence and before the West Midlands came into being. The map publication year is 1931. The map blows up to show all the parishes and many of the small villages and hamlets. Maps in this series are now downloadable for personal use.
- British History Online has a large collection of local maps from the Ordnance Survey 1883-1893. These blow up to a size that permits viewing of individual hamlets, farms, collieries, but there is no overlapping of one map to the next, and no overall map to tie the individual ones together.
- British History Online also has three volumes of the Victoria County History of Worcestershire online. Volume 3 (published in 1913) deals with the Halfshire Hundred; Volume 4 (published in 1924) deals with the City of Worcester, as well as parishes in the hundreds of Pershore and Doddingtree. Volume 2 covers religious houses in the county. The remainder of the county is not represented in the British History Online series.
- GENUKI makes a great many suggestions as to other websites with worthwhile information about Worcestershire as well as leading to a collection of 19th century descriptions of each of the ecclesiastical parishes.
- The FamilySearch Wiki provides a similar information service to GENUKI which may be more up-to-date. An index of parishes leads to notes and references for each parish. The auxiliary website English Jurisdictions can also be helpful.
- Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, The Hive, Sawmill Walk, The Butts, Worcester WR1 3PD (Telephone: 01905 822866, e-mail: archive@worcestershire.gov.uk) The Archives Collections Catalog Summary outlines the contents of the Archives Collection and also notes on what has been transferred to the national online service Access to Archives
- The Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry has a branch in Bromsgrove which deals in Worcestershire family history. There are also branches at Stourbridge and Worcester.
- The Midlands Historical Data project produces searchable facsimile copies of old local history books and directories of interest to genealogists. It specialises in the three counties of Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire, working closely with libraries, archives and family history societies in the area. Digital images are made freely available to participating organisations to improve public access. Free search index on its web-site to all its books. In many cases payment will be required to see the extract.
- A Vision of Britain through Time has
- organization charts of the hierarchies of parishes within hundreds, registration districts and rural and urban districts of the 20th century
- excerpts from a gazetteer of circa 1870 outlining individual towns and parishes
- reviews of population through the time period 1800-1960
- Brett Langston's list of Worcestershire Registration Districts and parishes within each registration district from 1837 to the present can indicate where to find details of civil registration entries since the process began in England.
- More local sources can often be found by referring to "What Links Here" in the column on the left.
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