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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]

"HANDSWORTH, (or Handsworth with Soho) a parish and post-town in the S. division of the hundred of Offlow, county Stafford, 2 miles N.W. of Birmingham. The parish, which is very extensive, is situated near the Grand Junction railway, on which it has a station near the end of Booth-street. It contains the townships of Handsworth and Perry Bar, which are separated from each other by the river Tame. " (There is more of this description).

An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Handsworth is to be found on a supplementary page.

  • Oscott
  • Perry Barr
  • Soho

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]