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Edgbaston in Warwick County England History and GeographyEDGBASTON, a parish in the Birmingham division of the hundred of HEMLINGFORD, county of WARWICK, 1½ mile (S.W.) from Birmingham, containing 2117 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty. Lord Calthorpe was patron in 1795. The church is dedicated to St. Bartholomew. The village has within the last few years become an extensive and handsome appendage to the town of Birmingham, and consists of several spacious streets well lighted with gas, containing many respectable houses, exclusively of several substantial mansions in detached situations, and numerous villas inhabited chiefly by proprietors of factories in the town, by the more opulent manufacturers, and private families: the buildings are chiefly of stone and brick, coated with Roman cement, and exhibit a great variety of architectural style. Of the few ancient buildings which existed previously to the erection of the modern town, the hall, which was garrisoned for the parliament in the reign of Charles I., and a private house called the Monument, from the erection of a very high octagonal tower of brick, near which passes the Roman Iknield-street, are the principal now remaining. The subscription bowling-green and pleasure-grounds are beautifully laid out and well attended. The reservoir of the Birmingham canal, which passes through the parish, an extensive sheet of water covering nineteen acres, and excavated to the depth of twenty feet, derives from the rich foliage on its banks all the beauty of a small lake. The church, an ancient structure, has been recently enlarged, and carefully restored, with a due regard to the preservation of its original character. The asylum for the deaf and dumb, on the borders of the canal, is a commodious edifice, resembling in some degree the ancient style of English architecture. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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