Bordesley Manor

Ref. 13C. Manor house presumed to be on or near later Hall site, overlooking Bordesley Brook, north of Bordesley Park Road. Demesne bounded by Coventry Road, Jenkins St. (?) and brook (Warwick Canal). Open fields to north and south, pastures beyond - Small Heath, Bordesley Green. Heybarnes sub-manor beside Cole. Manor of 1880 acres, between Rea, and Cole: Highgate/Belgrave Rds., Spark, on south bound: Garrison Brook and Lane, Bordesley Green, Blake Lane, Yardley Green Road, north bound. Enclosure of Wastes from 1285. 3-course field system, 1338, but many assarts, big increase in arable. Deritend in Aston Parish but Birmingham lordship, bounds along Rea, Vaughton/ Alcester Sts., Montagu St. Hamlet about green near much-used ford. St. John's Chapel late C14th , Old Crown House C14th et seq., Golden Lion C16th. Fifty-foot gorge below junction of roads from Coventry, Warwick, Stratford, Alcester, in Bordesley High St. Battle of Birmingham 1643 began there. Old Ship Inn, C15-16th, Ravenhurst C17th, Stratford House 1601, Owens' Farm C17th Lloyd Farm 1758, Bordesley Hall c.1760. Priestley's house Fair Hill and John Taylor's Bordesley Hall burnt in 1791 Riots, also Sparkbrook House by Ladypool Lane tollgate. Angel Inn C18th . All of Bordesley was enclosed by 1760, one small copse survived. Hobmoor and Dingle Farms, Heybarnes, Medley's Mill on Cole. Heath Mill at lane end from early medieval times. Deritend cottage industry in Tudor times, developed. Digbeth Branch Canal to Bordesley Basin, 1790. Development of Bradford and other streets up from Rea. Tollgates at new Rea bridge, Kyrwicks Lane, Ladypool Lane, Small Heath. Camp Hill suburb, early C19th. Holy Trinity Church 1824. Mansions along turnpikes.