A History of BIRMINGHAM Places & Placenames . . . from A to Y

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

 

Roughley/ Ruffley

B75 - Grid reference SP125990

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Slade Farm at RoughleySlade Farm at Roughley

 

 

 

This was a 'rough clearing', ruh leah, probably land that had been cleared from the forest but was uncultivated when the place was named. It may have been land already cleared before Anglo-Saxon times and later abandoned, or land cleared and left to nature during Anglo-Saxon times.


The modern urban district of Roughley lies on the edge of Sutton Coldfield north of Little Sutton Road beyond which is countryside. Roughley Farm stands at the junction of Slade Road and Duttons Lane.

 

 

 

William Dargue 12.03.09

 

 

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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.