Description
Himley, a village and a parish in Staffordshire, 3 miles NNW of Brierley Hill station on the G.W.R., and 4 W by N of Dudley. There is a post and telegraph office under Dudley; money order office, Wall Heath. Acreage, 1221; population, 304. The manor, with Himley Hall, belongs to the Earl of Dudley. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Dudley. The church was built in 1764, and thoroughly restored in 1893-94.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
