William Dargue - A History of Birmingham Places & Placenames . . .  from A to Y

Cottesbrook

B27 - Grid reference SP126838

Use the grid reference on the Ordnance Survey website - Get-a-map. 

A medieval 'cottage by the brook' ie. Westley Brook, is recalled in a streetname.

Cottesbrooke School opened on Yardley Road in 1968 and was so oversubscribed that the Baptist church hall was also used as accommodation. This building is now Cottesbrooke Infant School. Two Victorian houses opposite Florence Road were demolished to make way for a new school to be built. This became a separate institution, Cottesbrooke Junior School.

Google Maps - If you lose the original focus of the Google map, press function key F5 on your keyboard to refresh the screen. The map will then recentre on its original location.

For 19th-century Ordnance Survey maps of Birmingham go to British History Online - Maps.