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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "CRADLEY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BROMYARD	Herefordshire	Cradley, Stanford-Bishop, Avenbury, and Acton-Beauchamp, the last electorally in Worcester, and most of the parish of Bishops-Frome	Imperial
  Cradley	Worcestershire	Cradley , township and vil. with ry. sta., Halesowen par., E. Worcestershire, 2 miles NE. of Stourbridge, 732 ac., pop. 5284; P.O.; coal	Bartholomew
  Cradley	Herefordshire	Cradley .-- par., NE. Herefordshire, 3 miles N. of Colwall ry. sta., 5966 ac., pop. 1746; P.O.; contains hamlets of East	Bartholomew
  CRADLEY	Worcestershire	CRADLEY , a town and a township-chapelry in Hales-owen parish, Worcester. The town stands on the river Stour, at the boundary	Imperial
  CRADLEY (East and West)	Herefordshire	CRADLEY (East and West) , a parish in Bromyard district, Hereford; under the Malvern hills, at the boundary with Worcester, 3 miles	Imperial
  CRADLEY HEATH	Worcestershire	CRADLEY HEATH , a place 2¾ miles from Cradley, in Worcester; with a post office‡ under Brierley Hill.	Imperial
  HALESOWEN	Worcestershire	Cradley, Lntley, Hasbury, Hawn, Cakemore, Ridgacre, Hill, Lapal, and Illey. Acres, 5, 570. Pop., 11, 511. Houses, 2, 251. The parish	Imperial
  HEREFORD	Herefordshire	Cradley, Donnington, Eastnor, Edwin-Ralph, Evesbach, Frome-Castle, Little Marcle, Munsley, Pixley, Upper Sapey, StokeLacy, Tedstone-Delamere, Tedstone-Wafer, Thornbury	Imperial
  LYE	Worcestershire	Cradley railway, near the boundary with Stafford, 1½ mile E by N of Stourbridge;-is irregularly built; and has a station	Imperial
  MALVERN (WEST)	Herefordshire Worcestershire	Cradley, and Leigh parishes, Hereford and Worcester; 2 miles W of Great Malvern r. station. It was constituted in 1844; and it has a post	Imperial
  Malvern, West (or Mathon)	Worcestershire	eccl. dist., Mathon par., Worcestershire, and Colwall and Cradley pars., Herefordshire, 2 miles W. of Great Malvern, pop. 1088; P.O.	Bartholomew
  OLD HILL		OLD HILL , a station on the Birmingham and Stour.bridge railway; between Rowley and Cradley.	Imperial
  ROWLEY-REGIS	Staffordshire	Cradley-Heath, Old Hill, Reddall-Hill, and Tividale. Acres, 3, 503. Real property, £98, 550; of which £44, 234 are in mines	Imperial
  Storridge	Herefordshire	eccl. dist., Cradley par., Herefordshire, in NE. of co., pop. 212; contains Storridge House , seat, 7 miles SE. of Bromyard.	Bartholomew
  STOURBRIDGE RAILWAY	Staffordshire Worcestershire	Cradley Park and Coingreaves Iron-Works, aggregately 3¼ miles long, authorized in 1860; next, an extension to the Northwestern	Imperial

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