GOURNAL, a chapelry comprising Lower Gournal
and Over Gournal, in the parish of SEDGLEY, northern
division of the hundred of SEISDON, county of STAFFORD:
Lower Gournal is 1 mile (W.N.W.), and Over
Gournal 2 miles (N.W.), from Dudley. The population
is returned with the parish. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of
LicMeld and Coventry, endowed with £400 private benefaction,
and £ 800 parliamentary grant. The chapel
is dedicated to St. James.