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Over Saltley

B8 - Grid reference SP102878

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

Its name meaning Upper Saltley, this hamlet lay around the junction of Alum Rock Road and Bowyer Road. This is the top of the hill leading from the old ford, now Saltley Viaduct, which crossed the River Rea. At the bottom of the hill was the hamlet of Lower Saltley.

 

See Saltley.

 

 

  

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