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Kings Norton, alternatively King's Norton, is an area of Birmingham, England. Historically in Worcestershire, it was also a Birmingham City Council ward within the Government of Birmingham, England. The district lies 6.5 miles south-southwest of Birmingham city centre and is within 1.5 miles of the north Worcestershire border.
Overview. Kings Norton has a long and rich history with some evidence to show prehistoric and iron age use of the area. It is during the Anglo-Saxon era that permanent use of Kings Norton...
Nov 11, 2014 · The Battle of Kings Norton was fought here on October 17, 1642, when Royalists led by Prince Rupert - nephew of King Charles I of England - were defeated by Lord Willoughby of Parham and...
Sep 16, 2024 · NORTON, KING'S (St. Nicholas), a parish, and the head of a union, in the Upper division of the hundred of Halfshire, E. division of the county of Worcester, 5 miles (S. S. W.) from Birmingham; with the chapelries of Moseley.
Sep 26, 2024 · King's Norton, the greater part of which was included in the city of Birmingham under the Birmingham Extension Act, 1911, and so is now in Warwickshire, is a large parish situated immediately south of Birmingham, and included the now separate ecclesiastical parishes of Moseley, King's Heath and Wythall.
Kings Norton/ King's Norton is a classic village centre with its church, timber-framed manor house and pub focussed around a green. The village developed here during the Middle Ages, possibly on the site of the Anglo-Saxon settlement, with open strip fields surrounding the village.
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