Birchfield, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Birchfield or Birchfield End, a suburb of Birmingham constituted in 1865 an ecclesiastical parish from the civil parish of Handsworth. It is 1 mile from Perry Barr station on the L. & N.W.R., and has a post and money order office (Birchfield Road) under Birmingham, which is the telegraph office. Population, 7429. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £380. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church was erected in 1865.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Staffordshire | |
| Civil parish | Handsworth | |
| Hundred | Offlow | |
| Poor Law union | West Bromwich |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Birchfield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Birchfield)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Birchfield 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 Warwickshire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Warwickshire 1619 is available on the Heraldry page.