Bellow558, sorry I've been slow about this review; I've been out of town for a few days and am hoping to have time tonight and over the weekend to work on this. I appreciate the link to the list article  that's very helpful in clarifying what happened. 

 I'll return to your comments above, but for a moment I'd like to focus on the first section on the "Boundaries before 1844", because I'm still a bit confused about the state of affairs in 1844.  The map (Fig. 1) shows at least eight detached parts of Worcestershire, and one island of Warwickshire in Worcestershire.  The list article only lists "Icomb and the hamlets of Alstone and Little Washbourne" as transferring to other counties; but presumably all or most of these detached parts would have transferred.  So that's one question: Why are only three things listed as transferring but clearly there are many more detached parts shown on the map?  Conversely, you list multiple places as part of Halesowen that move from Shropshire to Worcestershire, but these don't appear to marked on the map.  With such a multitude of names it's very difficult to mark all of them clearly, but I think the reader should be able to draw a better correspondence between the map and the text than they can now.  Also, the paragraph about the act lists exclaves inside Worcestershire as follows: "These were found at Rochford, Broome, Clent, Tardebigge (Tutnall and Cobley) and Halesowen respectively and were transferred to or rejoined Worcestershire in October 1844".  This doesn't seem to match the list article, which mentions Broom, Clent and Rochford, adds a list of other places in Halesowen parish, and doesn't mention Tardebigge.  And all these descriptions are very hard to follow since they're not marked on Fig. 1. 

 To summarize that (rather confused) paragraph into a series of questions: 
 * What are the detached parts of Worcestershire that are shown on Fig. 1 but don't appear to be mentioned in the section on the 1844 act? 
 * What is the large enclave inside Worcestershire shown in Fig. 1 northeast of Droitwich? 
 * Why doesn't the list article mention Tardebigge? 
 * Why doesn't this article mention the other places in Halesowen parish that the list article mentions? 
 * Can the placenames for the 1844 changes (at least the main ones) be given on a map, either on Fig. 1 or a revised version of it that only shows the 1844 changes? 

 I'll go back up to your comments now and add some responses there.   -  -  )