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

Ladywood, Sutton Coldfield

B74 - Grid reference SP109974

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A wood which lay south-west of the junction of Bracebridge Road and Ladywood Road in Sutton Coldfield. The name of such woods is likely to be pre-Reformation and usually indicates church property or or woods whose income was dedicated to the church.

See Four Oaks.

William Dargue 30.03.09

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