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

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Hobs Moat

B92 - Grid reference SP146825

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

 

 

 

 

 

A large and clearly defined double-moated site, and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

 
For more information see Olton.

For information on the placename see also Hob Moor immediately above.

 

 

 

 

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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.