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

SMALLHEATH, a village on the NW border of Warwickshire; near the Birmingham and Warwick railway, 2 miles SE of Birmingham. It has a station, jointly with Sparkbrook, on the railway, and a post-office‡ under Birmingham.

Small Heath through time

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

How to reference this page:

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24281

Date accessed: 08th April 2026


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