Wythall or Wythewood, Worcestershire
Historical Description
Wythall or Wythewood, an ecclesiastical parish formed out of Kings Norton and Alvechurch parishes, Worcestershire, and Solihull parish,. Warwickshire, 3½ miles SSE of King's Norton. It was constituted in 1853, and has a post and money order office under Redditch; telegraph office, Alvechurch. Population, 1100. Weatheroak Hall is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Kings Norton. The church was rebuilt in 1862. There are Baptist and Unitarian chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Worcestershire | |
Civil parish | King's Norton | |
Hundred | Halfshire | |
Poor Law union | Kings-Norton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wythall or Wythewood from the following:
Land and Property
The full transcript of the Worcestershire section of the Return of Owners of Land, 1873.
Maps
Online maps of Wythall or Wythewood are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Worcestershire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Worcestershire 1569 is available on the Heraldry page.