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Stirchley, West Midlands history
Prehistoric
The name Cotteridge means Cotta’s Ridge, and there is a clear ridge running up from Breedon Hill . The Tithe Map records a feature of Near and Far Motts, now beneath Foxes Meadow, suggesting the possibility of an ancient Celtic settlement, hill-fort, or look-out site at the top of the ridge .
Roman
The Roman Road Icknield Street or Ryknield Street, connected Alcester with Metchley Fort . The road may have followed a more ancient packhorse route with salt as the most obvious commodity to be transported .
Anglo-Saxon
The boundaries of King’s Norton parish and the manor were coterminous and stretched from Balsall Heath in the north to Wythall in the south . Beating the bounds took four days to complete . The population was scattered but small hamlets and later sub-manors were formed .
Mills
Lifford Mill and pool lie on the south side of Tunnel Lane where it crosses the eastern of the two branches of the Rea . It may have been the Dobbs Mill shown in the area in 1787–9 . The pool and the reservoir below the mill were formed when the Worcester and Birmingham Canal was constructed in the early 19th century .
Farms
Lea House Farm was by the junction of Sycamore Road and Willows Road . Barnbrook Farm was at the cross-roads of Linden Road and Bournville Lane . Farm later became the recreation ground for female staff at Cadbury’s . Farm was half way up Fordhouse Lane near The Worthings .
Estates and High Status Residences
Breedon House on the estate of which is now Cotteridge Primary School . The house and estate was occupied by the Baldwin family, papermakers . Breedon Cross Farm was farmed by the Cheshire’s in the 1870s . The Old Cross Inn was sold c1900 and the owner moved to larger premises on the other side of the canal to enable the expansion of the screw factory .
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