William Dargue  A History of BIRMINGHAM Places & Placenames from A to Y

Fords Green

B23 - Grid reference SP115922

First record: early 19th century

 

A green at the junction of Holly Lane and Orphanage Road in Erdington, shown on Greenwood's map of Warwickshire c1830. It almost certainly derives from a family name. 

 

William Dargue 02.08.2010

 

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For 19th-century Ordnance Survey maps of Birmingham go to British History Online.

See http://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55193&sheetid=10084&ox=2526&oy=433&zm=2&czm=2&x=387&y=153.