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| | GENUKI: Halesowen, Shropshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868 |
 | | "HALESOWEN, a parish, post, and market town, partly in the lower division of the hundred of Halfshire, county Worcester, and partly in the Halesowen division of the hundred of Brimstree, county Salop, 7½ miles S.W. of Birmingham, 4½ E. of Stourbridge, and 5 S. of Dudley. |
 | | "CAKEMORE, a township in the parish of Halesowen, formerly in the hundred of Brimstree, in the county of Salop, but now in the hundred of Halfshire, in the county of Worcester, not far from Hales Owen." |
 | | The town of Halesowen is said to have been formerly a borough, though it does not appear to have returned members to parliament. |
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