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

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

 

The Three Estates, Kings Norton

B38 - Grid reference SP050783

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First record c2000

 

 

 

The Three Estates near Kings Norton are the Hawkesley, Pool Farm (See Walkers Heath) and Primrose Hill estates, municipal housing estates built east of the Redditch Road on Worcestershire farmland in the 1970s. A concerted programme of modernisation was undertaken from c2000.

 

 

Left: Hawkesley estate viewed from Longdales Road

 

William Dargue 04.03.09

 

 

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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.