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- source: Family History Library Catalog
Today Ogley Hay is a district of Brownhills in Staffordshire, England.
In 1896 Ogley Hay was separated into the parishes of Ogley Hay and Ogley Hay Rural (probably equivalent to the "extra-parochial tract" described by Wilson below). Ogley Hay Rural existed as a separate civil parish until 1934 when it was absorbed into the parish of Hammerwich.
A 19th century description
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Ogley Hay from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "OGLEY-HAY, a village, an extra-parochial tract, and a chapelry, in the S of Staffordshire. The village stands on the Wyrley and Essington canal, near Watling-street, and near the boundary with Warwickshire, 4 miles S of Lichfield [railway] station; and is a prosperous place. The extra-parochial tract includes the village, and extends into the country. Acres: 705. Real property: £2,394. Population in 1851, 518; in 1861: 1,357. Houses: 258. The increase of population was caused mainly by the opening of three large collieries. Traces of a Roman camp, called Knave's Castle, are to the N of the village.
- "The chapelry excludes part of the extra-parochial tract, but includes parts of the parishes of [Lichfield] St. Michael, Shenstone, Walsall, and Norton-under-Cannock; and was constituted in 1854. Post-town, Shenstone, under Lichfield. Population in 1861: 2,490. Houses: 476. Population of the St. Michael portion: 461; of the Shenstone portion: 105; of the Walsall portion: 229; of the Norton portion: 783. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value: £170. Patron: the Bishop of Lichfield. The church was built in 1851; and is a stone edifice, with tower and low spire. There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, and two national schools."
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