Description
Bobbington, a parish in Staffordshire and Salop, 3 1/2 miles W of the river Stour, 5 1/2 NW of Kingswinford, and 8 WNW of Stourbridge. It includes the hamlet of Halfpenny Green, and has a post office under Stourbridge ; money order office, Claverley, 2 1/2 miles distant; telegraph office, Kinver, 6 miles distant. Acreage, 2680; population of the civil parish, 367; of the ecclesiastical, 336. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £98 with residence. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1878. New schools were built in 1892, and the endowment of a former school was merged into the general fund. Leaton Hall, the seat of the lord of the manor, is the chief residence.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
