A History of BIRMINGHAM Places & Placenames . . . from A to Y

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

The Coldfield

The Colefield/ Colfield, Coldfield Heath, Coldfield Walk

B73/ B74 - Grid reference SP095967

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

 

 

 

 

The southern part of Sutton Chase so-named after the col, the 'charcoal' burning activities which went here on until the 18th century.


See Sutton Park.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Map below reproduced from Andrew Rowbottom’s website of Old Ordnance Survey maps Popular Edition, Birmingham 1921. See Acknowledgements. Click the map to link to that website.