BRIERLY-HILL, a chapelry in the parish of
KING'S-SWINFORD, northern division of the hundred
of SEISDON, county of STAFFORD, 2 miles (N. N. E.)
from Stourbridge. The population is returned with the
parish. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and
Coventry, and in the patronage of the Rector of
King's Swinford. The chapel was erected in IT&7-
The vicinity abounds with collieries and iron-works
on a large scale; and steam-boilers, and various other
heavy articles in iron, are made here.