In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Solihull like this:
SOLIHULL, a small town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a division, in Warwick. The town stands near the Birmingham and Warwick railway, and near the B. and W. canal, 7 miles SE of Birmingham; is a seat of petty-sessions, and a polling place; and has a post-office‡ under Birmingham, a r. station with telegraph, a town hall, a police station, a cruciform later English church, Independent and Roman Catholic chapels, an endowed grammar-school with £125 a year, another endowed school, a workhouse, and two annual fairs.—The parish includes Shirley chapelry, and comprises 11,296 acres. ...
Real property, £25,230. Pop., 3,329. Houses, 710. Malvern Hall is the seat of F. E. Williams, Esq. A Benedictine nunnery was founded, in the time of Henry II., at Henwood. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £1,455. Patron, the Rev. A. Clive. The p. curacy of Shirley is a separate benefice.—The sub-district contains three parishes, and comprises 19,778 acres. Pop., 7,383. Houses, 1,519.—The district includes also Knowle and Tanworth sub-districts, and comprises 46,015 acres. Poor rates in 1863, £5,192. Pop. in 1851, 11,973; in 1861, 13,231. Houses, 2,859. Marriages in 1863, 71; births, 393,-of which 24 were illegitimate; deaths, 238,-of which 68 were at ages under 5 years, and 8 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 835; births, 3,537; deaths, 2,294. The places of worship, in 1851, were 18 of the Church of England, with 6,086 sittings; 3 of Independents, with 466 s.; 1 of Baptists, with 110 s.; 1 of Wesleyans, with 118 s.; and 2 of Roman Catholics, with 164 s. The schools were 17 public day-schools, with 1,031 scholars; 22 private day-schools, with 387 s.; and 17 Sunday schools, with 1,187 s.-The division contains ten parishes, and is part of Hemlingford hundred. Acres, 35,592. Pop. in 1851, 9,098. Houses, 1,972.
Solihull through time
A Vision of Britain through Time includes a large library of local statistics for administrative units. For the best overall sense of how the area containing Solihull has changed, please see our redistricted information for the modern district of Solihull. More detailed statistical data are available under Units and statistics, which includes both administrative units covering Solihull and units named after it.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Solihull in Warwickshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1304
Date accessed: 23rd May 2013
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