Halesowen
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Halesowen is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the county of West Midlands, England.
16th-century Whitefriars, now Grade II listed, was one of the few older buildings to survive the 1960s redevelopment.
The ruins of Halesowen Abbey
The Counties Act 1844, which came into effect on 20 October 1844, was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which eliminated many outliers or exclaves of counties in England and Wales for civil purposes. The changes were based on recommendations by a boundary commission, headed by the surveyor Thomas Drummond and summarized in a schedule attached to the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832. This also listed a few examples of civil parishes divided by county boundaries, most of which were dealt with by later legislation.
Exclaves abolished by Act, l. to r: Minety Gloucs (with counter-exclave around church), Poulton Wilts, Broughton Poggs Oxon, Inglesham Wilts (small, s. of Lechlade), Little Faringdon and Langford Berks, Shilton Berks, Widford Gloucs. (Historic County Borders Project)
Exclaves of Northamptonshire missed by the Act, also shows Swineshead exclave of Huntingdonshire. (Historic County Borders Project)
Exclaves of Shillington, Bedfordshire, in Hertfordshire. (Historic County Borders Project)
Shalbourne salient of Berkshire, briefly in Wiltshire 1844 (Historic County Borders Project)