Description
Brownhills, a village and an urban sanitary district in Staffordshire. The village is in Ogley Hay ecclesiastical parish, near Cannock Chase, 5 1/2 miles NNE of Walsall, and 6 W of Lichfield. It has a station on the L. & N.W.R. and also on the Brownhills and Alridge branch of the M.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Walsall. There are extensive coal mines, giving employment to a considerable population. The village is governed by a local board. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels. Area of the urban sanitary district, 8842 acres; population, 13,703.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
