Oldbury

Oldbury, a busy manufacturing town of Worcestershire, 5½ miles WNW. of Birmingham, stands in the midst of a rich mineral district, and has iron and steel works, besides factories for railway plant, edge-tools, chemicals, &c. Pop. (1851) 11,741; (1881) 18,841; (1891) 20,348. See J. Nichols' History of Munceter Parish (1791).