Hagley
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| Population | 4,283 (2001) for Civil Parish; approximately 5600 for the whole village |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | STOURBRIDGE |
| Postcode district | DY8/9 |
| Dialling code | 01562 |
| Police | West Mercia |
| Fire | Hereford and Worcester |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| EU Parliament | West Midlands |
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Hagley is a village and civil parish in Worcestershire, England. It is on the boundary of the West Midlands and Worcestershire counties between the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley and Kidderminster. The parish had a population of 4,283 in 2001, but the whole village had a population of perhaps 5,600, including the part in Clent parish. It is in Bromsgrove District.
The parish of Hagley used to consist of Hagley, West Hagley and Blakedown. The main focus of the village was Hagley where Hagley Hall and the parish church of St John the Baptist (with its origins in Anglo-Saxon times) reside. In 1868 the Earl of Dudley defrayed one third of the cost of the tower and spire by George Edmund Street added to the church.
Lower Hagley started to expand with the arrival of the railway in 1852 and the building of a proper station and its iconic GWR footbridge (completed in 1884). The expansion of Lower Hagley (now known as West Hagley) initiated a shift in the focus of the village. This was recognised in 1906 with the building of a subsidiary parish church in Lower Hagley dedicated to St Saviour. and today West Hagley contains the shopping area and the schools. The precise dividing line between the two areas is undefined and is therefore debatable. Nevertheless, both settlements lie within the parish of Hagley.
The parish register of Hagley is the oldest in England. It dates from 1 December 1538, being the year in which registers were ordered to be kept in all parishes.
Hagley is part of the West Midlands Urban Area as defined by the Office for National Statistics, and is joined to Stourbridge and the Black Country by the A491 and B4187; The village lies at the foot of the Clent Hills, and is served by its own railway station on the Kidderminster to Birmingham line.
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