In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Acocks Green like this:
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.
Acocks Green through time
Acocks Green is now part of Birmingham district. Click here for graphs and data of how Birmingham has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Acocks Green itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Acocks Green, in Birmingham and Worcestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23086
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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