Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HOCKLEY, or Hockley-Hill

HOCKLEY, or Hockley-Hill, a suburb of Birmingham; at the confines of Warwickshire and Staffordshire, on the Stour Valley railway, NE of Smethwick. It has r station on the railway, and a post office‡ under Birmingham.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a suburb of Birmingham"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Staffordshire AncC       Warwickshire AncC
Place names: HOCKLEY     |     HOCKLEY HILL     |     HOCKLEY OR HOCKLEY HILL
Place: Hockley

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