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

Potters Hill

B6 - Grid reference SP071890

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

The manor of Aston lies on an east-west ridge of higher ground between Hockley Brook (aka. The Bourn/ Aston Brook) to the south and an unnamed tributary of the River Tame to the north; both brooks are now culverted beneath the streets. On a high point at the east end of the ridge stands Aston Hall.

Potters Hill is the hill which rises up northwards from Potters Lane near Newtown. Potters Hill was a also streetname, now gone, which ran west of Selston Road until the housing redevelopments there from the mid-1960s. The name is taken from the 18th-century Potter family whose farm, Potters Farm lay just north of Park Lane.

William Dargue 04.04.09

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