Perry Barr, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Perry Barr, formerly a hamlet in Handsworth parish, Staffordshire, but constituted a separate civil parish in 1894 by Order in Council. It lies on Icknield Street and the river Tame, adjacent to Warwickshire, 3 miles N of Birmingham, and has stations (Perry Barr and Great Barr) on the Birmingham, Walsall, and Wolverhampton section of the L. & N.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Birmingham. The literary and scientific institute includes reading-rooms, library, class-rooms, and lecture-hall, and at the back there is a recreation ground. The ecclesiastical parish contains also Perry village, and was constituted in 1862. Population, 3377. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. Perry Hall was rebuilt by the Hon. F. Gough in the Tudor style, and belongs now to The Gough-Calthorpe family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £370. The church was built in 1833, and enlarged in 1890-94, is a fine cruciform structure with a tower. Christ Church was erected in 1862 as a chapel of ease. All Saints Church was erected in 1893 in the hamlet of Scott. There is a Wesleyan chapel. A Roman Catholic convent and orphanage are at Mary Vale.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Perry Barr from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Perry-Bar)

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Staffordshire is online.

Maps

Online maps of Perry Barr 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 Staffordshire newspapers online:

• Staffordshire Advertiser
• Tamworth Herald
• Lichfield Mercury
• Staffordshire Sentinel
• Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser

Villages, Hamlets, &c