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HALESOWEN , a See also:market See also:town in the See also:Oldbury See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Worcestershire, See also:England, on a See also:branch See also:line of the See also:Great Western and Midland See also:railways, 62 m. W.S.W. of See also:Birmingham. Pop. (Igo I), 4057. It lies in a pleasant See also:country among the eastern foothills of the Lickey Hills. There are extensive See also:iron and See also:steel manufactures. The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of SS See also:Mary and See also:John the Baptist has See also:rude See also:Norman portions; and the poet See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Shenstone, buried in 1763 in the See also:churchyard, has a memorial in the church. His delight in landscape gardening is exemplified in the neighbouring See also:estate of the Leasowes, which was his See also:property. There is a See also:grammar school founded in 1652, and in the neighbourhood is the Methodist See also:foundation of See also:Bourne See also:College (1883). See also:Close to the town, on the See also:river See also:Stour, which rises in the vicinity, are slight ruins of a Premonstratensian See also:abbey of See also:Early See also:English date. Within the See also:parish and 2 m. N.W. of Halesowen is Cradley, with iron and steel See also:works, See also:fire-See also:clay works and a large See also:nail and See also:chain See also:industry.
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