Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for YARDLEY-WOOD

YARDLEY-WOOD, a chapelry in Yardley and Kings-Norton parishes, Worcester; near Acocks-Green r. station, and 4 miles SE of Birmingham. It was constituted in 1849; and its Post town is Acocks-Green, under Birmingham. Pop., 687. Houses, 160. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value £60.* Patron, Miss Taylor.


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

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Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Worcestershire AncC
Place: Yardley Wood

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