HALESOWEN, market town, Stourbridge parliamentary division, Worcestershire, England, on the G.W. and L.M.S. railways 61 m. S.W. of Birmingham. Pop. (1921) 4,126. There are exten sive iron and steel manufactures. The church of SS. Mary and John the Baptist has rude Norman portions. There are a grammar school (165 2) and Bourne college . Close to the town are slight ruins of an Early English Premonstratensian abbey. Within the parish and 2 m. N.W. of Halesowen is Cradley, with iron and steel works, fire-clay works and a large nail and chain industry. Pop. of urban district (1931) 31,058.