Place:


Hockley  Warwickshire

 

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

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.

Additional information about this locality is available for Birmingham

Hockley through time

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

How to reference this page:

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24993

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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