Lower Gornal in 1872

GORNALL (Lower and Upper), two villages and two chapelries in Sedgley parish, Stafford. The villages stand neat the Birmingham and Wolverhampton railway, 2 miles NW of Dudley railway station, and 4 S of Wolverhampton; and each has a post-office of its own name, that of Lower Gornall under Dudley. The tract around them abounds in fire-clay; and many of the inhabitants are employed in working this into bricks and other articles; while many are employed also in collieries, hardware works, bellows factories, and malt-houses. The property is much subdivided.

The chapelry of Lower Gornall was constituted in 1832; and that of Upper Gornall, in 1844. Pop. of Lower Gornall, 5,915. Houses, 1,128. Pop. of Upper Gornall, 4,044. Houses, 690. The livings of both are perpetual curacies in the diocese of Lichfield, value of Lower Gornal, £129. Patron, the Earl of Dudley. Value of Upper Gornall, £215. Patron, the Vicar of Sedgley. There are in Lower Gornall, chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists; in Gornal Wood, chapels for Wesleyans and New Connexion Methodists; in Upper Gornall, chapels for Independents and Wesleyans. There are also national, British, and infant schools.
 

[Description(s) from The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]