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Northfield, Birmingham history
Pre-history
Northfield was occupied or visited in the Stone Age as evidenced by a yellow Chert neolithic scraper discovered in Quarry Lane and a stone axe-head found on Tessall Lane . Large burnt mounds of heat-shattered stones have been identified alongside Northfield’s streams . One of these mounds found near Merritts Brook Lane is 16 metres across .
Roman, Saxon and Norman periods
Before Roman times the area around Northfield most likely belonged to the Celtic tribe, Dobunii . The name was original nord feld, an Anglo-Saxon phrase and Northfield was probably named because the area is north of Bromsgrove .
Civil War period
Northfield stood on the northern border of royalist Worcestershire and right next to parliamentary Warwickshire . During the English Civil War there were regular minor skirmishes and conflicts between the forces of the two opposing sides . Hawkesley House in West Heath was besieged and seized by parliamentary forces .
19th century
Nailer’s workshops had been present in Northfield, Groveley, West Heath and Turves Green . By the start of the 20th century nailing had moved to central Birmingham factories, ceasing to be a cottage industry .
20th century
Victoria Common was laid out and landscaped on the site of the former public common land called Bradley’s Field by Birmingham City Council as a municipal recreation area to mark Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 . The park has changed little since it was first opened, excepting the additions of several tennis courts laid in the 1930s and a children’s play area built in the 1950s and renewed since .
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