Place:


Sparkbrook  Warwickshire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sparkbrook like this:

SPARKBROOK, a chapelry in Aston parish, Warwick; on the river Cole and the Oxford and Birmingham railway, 2¼ miles SW of Birmingham. It has a r. station jointly with Smallheath, and a post-office under Birmingham. Pop., about 3,100. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Worcester. Value, not reported. Patrons, Trustees.

Sparkbrook through time

Sparkbrook is now part of Birmingham district. Click here for graphs and data of how Birmingham has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Sparkbrook itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Sparkbrook, in Birmingham and Warwickshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20830

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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