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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"HANDSWORTH, (or Handsworth with Soho) a parish and post-town in the S. division of the hundred of Offlow, county Stafford, 2 miles N.W. of Birmingham. The parish, which is very extensive, is situated near the Grand Junction railway, on which it has a station near the end of Booth-street. It contains the townships of Handsworth and Perry Bar, which are separated from each other by the river Tame. " (There is more of this description).
An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Handsworth is to be found on a supplementary page.
- Oscott
- Perry Barr
- Soho
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]