Oscott, Staffordshire
Historical Description
Oscott, a village in Perry Barr township, Handsworth parish, Staffordshire, 4 miles N of Birmingham. St Mary's Roman Catholic College, Oscott, was founded in 1794 for both religious and secular education; was rebuilt in 1840, after designs by Pugin, at a cost of nearly £60,000; is a large cruciform edifice, of brick with stone dressings, and with a central tower and spire; and contains a chapel, oratories, libraries, refectories, dormitories, and other apartments.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Warwickshire | |
Civil parish | Handsworth | |
Hundred | Hemlingford | |
Poor Law union | Aston |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
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Maps
Online maps of Oscott 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)