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

Greens Village

B1 - Grid reference SP068866

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

Known as such from the mid-18th to the mid 19th century, this was a notorious slum area off Hill Street of crowded back-to-back houses. It probably takes its name from the landowner. There was a large Irish population here. In 1841 of some c350 residents listed, nearly one third had been born in Ireland and a high proportion of them were unskilled labourers.  

See also The Hinkleys.

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