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HOCKLEY, or Hockley-Hill, a suburb of Birmingham; at the confines of Warwickshire and Staffordshire, on the Stour Valley railway, NE of Smethwick. It has r station on the railway, and a post office‡ under Birmingham.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a suburb of Birmingham" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Staffordshire AncC Warwickshire AncC |
Place names: | HOCKLEY | HOCKLEY HILL | HOCKLEY OR HOCKLEY HILL |
Place: | Hockley |
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