Shepherds Green

B24 - Grid reference SP103905

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First record 1564

These houses on the corner of Wheelwright Road (ahead) and Kingsbury Road (left-right) were here by 1889.

This placename is recorded on the 1889 Ordnance Survey map at the junction of Wheelwright Road and the Kingsbury Road at Gravelly Hill. Wheelwright Road led down to Erdington Hall.

The green is not named a shepherd but from a family name: Thomas Smith alias Shepherd is recorded around here in 1564 .

This was the location of the first tollgate on the Kingsbury Turnpike which had been opened in 1826. The gate keeper in 1841 was Jonathan Statham. In 1872 the road was disturnpiked and became the responsibility of the Warwickshire County authorities.

See Erdington and Gravelley Hill.

William Dargue 09.03.09

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