In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Perry like this:

PERRY, a hamlet in the S of Stafford; on Icknield-street and the Liverpool canal, adjacent to Warwickshire, 3½ miles N of Birmingham. It has a post-office under Birmingham.

Perry through time

Perry is now part of BIRMINGHAM District. Click here for graphs and data of how BIRMINGHAM has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Perry itself, go to Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Perry, in Birmingham and Staffordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24160

Date accessed: 08th April 2026


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