NORTHFIELD, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of HAMPSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 6 miles (S. W. by S.) from Birmingham, containing 1567 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, with the curacy of Coston-Hacket, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £14. 15. 2., and in the patronage of the Rev. John Thomas Fenwick. The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, is partly in the early English, and partly in the decorated, style, with a Norman door. The small river Rea,' also the Birmingham and Worcester, and the Netherton canals, run through the parish, in which there are quarries of freestone. Here are some remains of Weoley castle, formerly belonging to the Jervoise family. A charity school is supported with the income arising from a bequest of £ 150 by William Worth, and another of A100, in 1779, by the Rev. Mr. Soley.