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

Moor Street

B32 - Grid reference SO991829

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de la More: first record 1275

It is not unusual to have what is apparently a street-name as a placename, but it can be confusing. This locality at the south-west end of Woodgate Valley Country Park lies around the junction of Clapgate Lane and Woodgate Lane. It was only ever a hamlet, and by 1840 a row of cottages stood here. It was not until after the Second World War that this area was built up as part of the housing developments around Bartley Green.

A moor was the medieval term for a marshy boggy area - the Bourn Brook is close by.

William Dargue 07.04.09

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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.