Lye, Worcestershire

Description
Lye, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Old Swinford parish, Worcestershire. The village stands' near the boundary with Staffordshire, 1 1/4 mile E by N of Stourbridge, is irregularly built, and has a station on the Stourbridge and Birmingham section of the G.W.R. and a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Stourbridge. The township includes the village and a considerable surrounding tract. Acreage, 341; population, 6707. The manufacture of anvils, vices, nails, chains, anchors, galvanized iron goods, and firebricks is largely carried on. Lye Waste, around Lye village, took its name from being an uncultivated appendage to Lye, but became settled by a numerous body of men, who acquired a right of separate freehold on the passing" of an Enclosure Act, and is now thickly built over. The-ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1839. Population 1/2 6479. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £234 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church was repaired and improved in 1858. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, Primitive and New Connexion Methodist, and Unitarian chapels, a cemetery, and a mechanics' institute.