In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Brownhills like this:
BROWNHILL, a locality in the south of Staffordshire; on the Birmingham and Derby railway, near Cannock Chase, 5¼ miles NNE of Walsall. It has a station on the railway, and a post office‡ under Walsall.
Brownhills through time
Brownhills is now part of Walsall district. Click here for graphs and data of how Walsall has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Brownhills itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Brownhills, in Walsall and Staffordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/90
Date accessed: 06th November 2024
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