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

Woodcock Hill

B31 - Grid reference SP015815

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

Wodecoc: first record 1275

This name may derive from a family name or from the bird, the woodcock, a medieval game bird of open woodland.
See Cockshutt Hill for more information on the bird.

William Dargue 06.02.09

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

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.