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

Moundsley

B38 - Grid reference SP061783

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Mundesley: first record 13th century

Old English Mund's or Munda's leah meaning 'Mund's clearing' is found in a document of the 13th century as Mundesley. From the Middle Ages the name Moundsley was the name used of a tax yield, an adminstrative district of Kings Norton.

Off Walkers Heath Road stood Moundsley Hall, a large brick building erected in the 19th century. In 1939 it was decided to demolish house and replace it with a new Moundsley Hall east of the original site. As demoltion proceeded, the timber frame of an earlier buildng was revealed. Believed to date from before 1521, the Tudor mansion had been encased within its Victorian successor.

Now only the 19th-century lodge survives on Walkers Heath Road and is a Grade II Listed building. A home for elderly known as Moundsley Hall Care Home has been built on the site in recent years. Moundsley farm lies about a mile away to the east-south-east of the old hall site off Crabmill Lane.

Moundsley Hall Gallery - click on the images to enlarge them.
Below left: Photograph of Moundsley Hall in 1936 before the earlier timbered building was revealed.

Below centre: Conjectural drawing of the earlier building.
Below right: Drawing of the building during demolition during the 1940s.
Grateful thanks for the use of these images to E W Green, Historic Buildings in Pen & Ink - The Work of William Albert Green. See Acknowledgements for a direct link to that website.

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.