Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Handsworth. You may be able to find further references to Handsworth in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Handsworth	town and parish	Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Handsworth.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Birchfield	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
BIRCHFIELD	a chapelry	Imperial
Hamstead	hamlet	Bartholomew
Oscott	village	Bartholomew
OSCOTT	a village	Imperial

Travel writing

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Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Hamstead	0	2
Birchfield	0	2
Perry	0	1
Perry Barr	0	3
Lozells	0	2
Aston	0	3
Witton	0	2
Oscott	0	2
Hockley	0	2
Aston Brook	0	2
Nechells	0	1
Bloomsbury	0	2
Smethwick	0	2
Spon Lane	0	1
Gravelly Hill	0	2
Ashted	0	2
Birmingham	88	4
Erdington	0	2
West Bromwich	3	3
Ladywood	0	2