Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Smethwick

Smethwick.-- manufacturing town with ry. sta., Harborne par., Staffordshire, 3½ miles NW. of New Street Station, Birmingham, pop. 25,084; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks; has extensive glass works, chemical works, engineering and machine works, iron foundries, rivet and tube works, safe mfrs., &c.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "manufacturing town with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Staffordshire AncC
Place: Smethwick

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