Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sedgley is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands of England. Historically a part of Staffordshire, Sedgley was anciently a manor composed of a series of villages: Sedgley, Cotwall End, Upper Gornal, Lower Gornal, Gornal Wood, Gospel End, Woodsetton, Ettingshall, Coseley and Brierley (now called Bradley, not to be confused with Brierley Hill).The place name Sedgley was first mentioned in a 985 charter from King Æthelred to Lady Wulfr n, when describing the Wolverhampton border. The original Old English place name was 'Secg's l ah' - Secg being a personal name (meaning sword bearing man or warrior) and l ah meaning wood, glade or woodland clearing (so, the l ah belonging to Secg).