Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BROWNHILL

BROWNHILL, a locality in the south of Staffordshire; on the Birmingham and Derby railway, near Cannock Chase, 5¼ miles NNE of Walsall. It has a station on the railway, and a post office‡ under Walsall.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a locality"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Staffordshire AncC
Place: Brownhills

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