Dear Ken, what you might do is have a look in the appropriate Directories, because in the description of each parish/place, there is often an explanation of what were Liberties etc. Regards, Penny > > Firstly, I know that, some 200 or so years ago, there were some parishes, which were technically part of Shropshire but were "detached" geographically and were in what is / was Worcestershire. Snag is that I can't remember which ones they were. Does anyone know which parishes they were, please? I am mainly interested in any which were in what was once a very rural area to the north-east of Halesowen "proper", but would also be interested to know of any others, please.