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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"SOLIHULL, (or Silhill), a parish and post town in the Solihull division of Hemlingford hundred, county Warwick, 6½ miles S.E. of Birmingham, and 14,3 from Warwick. It is a station on the Birmingham and Oxford railway. It is situated betwixt the Warwick and Stratford-on-Avon canals, on the river Blythe. It is a polling-place for the county, and a decayed petty sessions and market town, containing the villages of Shirley Street, Shirley Heath, Solihull, and Olton, the old seat of the barons of Limesi.

There is a townhall over the market-place, also a savings-bank. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Worcester, value £1,455. The church, dedicated to St. Alphege, is a cruciform structure with a spired tower containing eight-bells. The parochial charities produce about £560 per annum, of which £511 are realised from the town estates. There is a free grammar school, where Shenstone was educated, and National schools for both sexes at Shirley Street. The Independents and Wesleyans have each a place of worship, and the Roman Catholics a church recently erected.

"SHIRLEY-STREET, a village in the parish of Solihull, hundred of Hemlingford, county Warwick, 6 miles S.E. of Birmingham, on the river Blythe, between the Warwick and Stratford-on-Avon canal. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Worcester, value £120. The church is dedicated to St. James, and was enlarged in 1841. There is a National school for both sexes."

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