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In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Short Heath like this:
Short Heath, town with ry. sta. (Short Heath, Clarks Lane), Willenhall township, Wolverhampton par., Staffordshire, 5 miles W. and in parl. limits of Wolverhampton, pop. 2394; P.O.; is a local government dist.
This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Short Heath by doing a full-text search here.
Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Willenhall | 0 | 2 |
Bentley | 1 | 2 |
Wednesfield | 0 | 2 |
Portobello | 0 | 1 |
Essington | 0 | 1 |
Bloxwich | 0 | 2 |
Birchills | 0 | 2 |
Darlaston | 9 | 2 |
Walsall | 15 | 2 |
Blakenall Heath | 0 | 1 |
Heathtown | 0 | 1 |
Bescot | 0 | 2 |
Hilton | 0 | 2 |
Pleck | 0 | 2 |
Bushbury | 0 | 2 |
Bilston | 1 | 2 |
Moxley | 0 | 2 |
Moseley | 0 | 2 |
Wood Green | 0 | 1 |
Wednesbury | 35 | 2 |