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parts of the kingdom : the great London road to Holyhead passes 

 through it. Bilston has been long celebrated for its vast mines of 

 coal, iron-stone, quarry-stone, and clay : here are also numerous 

 furnaces for smelting iron ore, forges, and slitting-mills. It has 

 been asserted that more iron is made in Bilston-fields than in the 

 whole kingdom of Sweden. 



The Chapel, dedicated to St. Leonard, is a perpetual curacy 

 within the exempt jurisdiction of Wolverhampton, but the right 

 of nomination is vested in the inhabitants at large : it is a neat 

 modern edifice, fitted-up with much taste. A sharp contest for 

 this curacy took place in 1813, which was decided in favour of Mr. 

 Leigh by a great majority. Here are also two Dissenting chapels, 

 and an excellent charity-school. 



MINES. The strata in the mines now working at Bradley, near 

 Bilston, are as follow : 



Depth. 

 Ft. In. 



6 

 

 6 



21 

 



No. STRATA. 



1. Surfacesoil, 1 



2. Clay and ratch, 9 



3. Clunch, 2 



4. Iron-stone, 



5. Clunch, 2 



6. Iron-stone, 2 



7. Soft clay, 2 



8. Dark batty clunch, .... 3 



9. Gray jointy rock, 4 



10. Iron-stone, 1; 



11. Rockbinds with iron-stone, 4 



12. Soft parting, 1 



13. Strong black rock, 4 



14. Dark clunch, 7 



15. Iron-stone, 5 



J6. Dark clunch with ironO ^ Q 



stone, } 



17- Ditto fuller of iron-stone, 10 



18. Soft clay, 1 8 



19. Batt, 2 3 



20. Brooch coal, 3 6 



21. Fireclay, 4 



22. Black iron-stone, 1 



23. Black earth, I 6 



24. Iron-stone, 2 



25. Black earth & iron-stone, 1 6 



26. Iron-stone, 1 5 



STRATA. 



Brought over, .... 56 



27. Rockbinds with iron-stonelO 



28. Dark earth, with iron-") 



stone, / 



29. Rockbinds, with iron-stone 9 



30. Peldon, ................ 4 



31. Gray rock, ............ 23 



32. Dark clunch, .......... 2 



5 

 



~ A 

 6 

 

 

 

 



To the main Coal, 110 5 



33. White coal, ............ 3 



34. Tow coal, .............. 2 3 



35. Benches & brazils, ____ 4 6 



36. Foot coal, ............. 2 3 



37. Slip batt, .............. 2 3 



38. Slips, ................. 2 3 



39. Stone coal parting, ---- 4 



40. Stone coal and patchels, 4 6 



41. Penny coal, ............ 6 



42. Springs and Slippers, . . 4 6 



43. Humfrybatt, .......... 4 



44. Humfries, ............. 2 3 



Main Coal Stratum, 28 11 



Upper Stratum, ..110 5 



Whole Depth, .... 139 4 



The surface soil is a gravelly loam : No. 2, is generally rubbish, 

 but in some places the clay will make brick; No. 3, clunch, a moul- 



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