In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bickenhill like this:
BICKENHILL, a parish in Meriden district, Warwick; on the Northwestern railway and the Warwick canal, 2 miles NW of Hampton-Junction r. station, and 8 SE of Birmingham. It comprises Church, Middle, Lyndon, and Marston quarters; and has a post office under Birmingham. Acres, 3,771. Real property, £6,674. Pop., 744. Houses, 170. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £222.* Patron, the Earl of Aylesford. The church is old but good. There are a chapel of ease, a national school, and charities £6.
Bickenhill through time
Bickenhill is now part of Solihull district. Click here for graphs and data of how Solihull has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bickenhill itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bickenhill, in Solihull and Warwickshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8574
Date accessed: 05th November 2024
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