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| | GENUKI: Walsall |
 | | The parish of Walsall is in two townships, called the Borough and Foreign, which had a population of 26,816 in 1851, of whom 8,760 were in the Borough and 18,056 in the Foreign Township. |
 | | More than two-thirds of the latter are in the suburbs of Walsall, and the rest in the large village of Bloxwich, and the hamlets of Birch Hills, Walsall Wood, Shelford, Goscote, Caldmore, etc, extending four miles north and one and a half miles south of the town. |
 | | Bescot, the most southerly hamlet of the Foreign of Walsall, is about two miles S by W of Walsall, and is mentioned in the Domesday Book as the property of the king, and it afterwards passed to the Hillary, Montford, and other families. |
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