| Saltley is physically an interfluvial ridge sloping northward, from
422 feet near the top of Cherrywood Road to 'about 280 feet at the
Tame. The ridge is cut into by the valleys of three lost Rea tributaries,
called for con-venience Garrison, Moat, and Gate Brooks, and a Wash
Brook side-stream called herein Shaw Hill Brook. In the north is the
wide flood plain of the Tame, which extends across Little Bromwich.
That manor is a ridge between Wash Brook and the Cole, descending
from 435 feet on Blake Lane to about 275 feet at Bromford Bridge.
It is indented by the valleys of Treeford and Howlets Farm Brooks
on the east side, Holbrook on the west, and by Ward End Brook in the
north. |
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