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ACOCK'S GREEN, a chapelry in Yardley parish, Worcester; on the Oxford and Birmingham railway, 4¼ miles SE of Birmingham. It was constituted in 1867; and it has a r. station, a post office‡ under Birmingham, a church of 1867 at a cost of £4,000, a recent hand some Independent chapel, and a Wesleyan chapel. The living is a vicarage. Statistics, not reported.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Yardley CP/AP Worcestershire AncC |
Place: | Acocks Green |
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