Erdington Warks.

Including Witton and Pype Hayes, Erdington covered 4625 acres. The bounds were Tame, Chester Road, Plants Brook, College Road. Double-moated Erdington Hall beside Tame, de Erdington family 1166-1461, no resident lords since then. Chapel at Hall, manor mill at Bromford. Waste enclosed in 1218, divided among heirs. Origin of Pype Manor, 1290? Manor house, (Wood End Hall), moated, ½ mile north of Erd. Hall. Erdington in Aston Parish, lords built south aisle of church, Roger, Lidgeat, Harrow, Dunslade Fields, Wheatcroft, around village, pastures beyond - Short Heath, and Stockland, Birches. Harbortree, and Mere Greens. Towards edges of manor were assarts - Pype Hayes, Holifast, Ashold, Stone House, Salford, Wood Lane Farms, etc. Pype Hayes Hall, Jacobean, much altered, home of Bagots. Old Erdington Hall demolished C17th. Humphrey Jennens built new hall, after 1681. Hall enlarged 1782: 3-storey brick, ancient foundations, still part-moated. Demolished 1920's for making of Tyburn Road. Final enclosures in Erdington 1802 took in a fifth of the manor, 122 acres of Fields, 104 acres of Common meadows and pasture, and 713 acres of Common waste. St. Barnabas' Church in the village (Thos. Rickman) 1824. Oldest building, Green Man Inn, Bromford Lane, part C14th. Wood End House, Tudor, demolished this C20th. Ashold Farm, early C19th, the late Georgian Rookery, Kingsbury Road, Berwood (Regency) on Chester Road, and Pype Hayes Hall, survive. Tollgate on Kingsbury Road at Wheelwright Rd.