THE FORESTS OF STAFFORDSHIRE 149 



were included in the forest, as well as part of Morfe in Shrop- 

 shire ; but the greater part of Kinver Forest then lay in Wor- 

 cestershire, for it embraced Pechmore, Hagley, Old Swinford, 

 Chaddesley, Kidderminster, Wolverley, Churchill, and part 

 of Feckenham, in addition to Tordebig, in Warwickshire. 



Nevertheless, although most of its area was in Worcester- 

 shire, and its prison in Shropshire, Kinver Forest, taking 

 its title from the small Staffordshire town of that name, was 

 always reckoned as a forest of the last of these three shires. 



