Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Brierly Hill

Brierly Hill, town with ry. sta., Kingswinford par., W. Staffordshire, on river Stour, 2½ miles NE. of Stourbridge, pop. 11,603; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank, 1 newspaper; has brickworks, potteries, glass-works, and collieries.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "town with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Kingswinford CP/AP       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Brierley Hill

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