Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BALSALL HEATH

BALSALL HEATH, a chapelry in King's Norton parish, Worcester; on the Birmingham and Gloucester railway, 2½ miles S of Birmingham. It was constituted in 1853; and it has a post office under Birmingham. Pop., 7,651. Houses, 1,616. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £300.* Patron, the Vicar of King's Norton. The church is ancient.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Kings Norton Ch/CP       Worcestershire AncC
Place: Balsall Heath

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