Sandhills

This self-explanatory topographical name was given to the area around Alma Street in Aston close to Lozells. Much of the sand was used locally for making mortar for the building of Aston New Town from the 1850s. The name is recalled now only in the modern street name, Sandhill Farm Close.

William Dargue 11.03.2009

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

See http://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55192&sheetid=10074&ox=993&oy=2708&zm=1&czm=1&x=432&y=176.