In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hockley like this:
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.
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Hockley through time
Hockley is now part of Birmingham district. Click here for graphs and data of how Birmingham has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hockley itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hockley, in Birmingham and Warwickshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24993
Date accessed: 10th October 2024
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