The history, topography and directory of Warwickshire; inclusive of some portions of the ancient histories of Rous, Camden, Speed, and Dugdale, with curious memoirs of the lives of these early writers : a description of the present state of the county with its modern divisions and subdivisions, and their population and valuation; a directory of every town and considerable village in the county; a gazetteer of all the towns, villages, parishes and hamlets, with their distances from the principal market or post towns, and from London; and an itinerary of the direct and cross roads, with a list of the noblemen and gentlemen's seats, illustrated with characteristic etchings and a map of the county.
- West, William, 1770-1854.
- Date:
- 1830
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history, topography and directory of Warwickshire; inclusive of some portions of the ancient histories of Rous, Camden, Speed, and Dugdale, with curious memoirs of the lives of these early writers : a description of the present state of the county with its modern divisions and subdivisions, and their population and valuation; a directory of every town and considerable village in the county; a gazetteer of all the towns, villages, parishes and hamlets, with their distances from the principal market or post towns, and from London; and an itinerary of the direct and cross roads, with a list of the noblemen and gentlemen's seats, illustrated with characteristic etchings and a map of the county. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
![790 INDEX. medals, &c. description of, I77..I8I— mining- and copper company, 182— new library, 182—school of medicine, 1S4—institution for promoting the fine arts, 183—friends’ meeting-house, 184 —dispensary, 185-bankers and branch bank, 18(5,189,190,220,788—Wesleyan chapel, 18(5—old library,! 86—fire-office, 386—elegant shops, &c. 186,187—athe- naeum, 187—pantechnetheca, 188, 189 —lieu and chickens hotel, 190—free gi ammar school, its charter, &c. 191..208 — Fox’s wire manufactory, 208—Lady Huntingdon’s chapel, 208 —savings bank, 208—Baptists’ (Cal- v inis tic) meeting-house, 209 — philo- sophical society, 210—crown copper company, 209 — assay office, 209— Phipson’s pin manufactory, 209—ar- chitectural taste, 210 —theatre, 210, 211—general post office, 211, 212 — Portugal-liouse, 213—society for the encouragement of arts, 213,214—Christ church, or the free church, 214, 215- infant school, Ann-street, 216..219 Old-square, 220—Priory, 220—Gal- ton’s-bank,220—Ebenezer chapel, 221, 222—parish poor-house, 222—Thorpe and Co.’s pin manufactory, 223 St. Mary’s chapel, 224—Roman Catholic chapel, (St. Chad’s) 224—Methodists’ chapel, 224—St. Bartholomew’s cha- pel, 224—gun-barrel proof-house,224, 225—Phipson’s rolling mills, 226— Unitarian meeting-house and Sunday schools, 226—St. Peter’s church, 227- public office,227—St. Martin’schurch, 228—Nelson’s monument, 229—Mr! Hutton, and court of requests, 230, 231, 232 — town-hall, public-office, market-house, and corn exchange, 232, 236—lady-well baths, 236..239—old meeting-house, 239 — Presbyterian place of worship, 239—Sunday schools, 239—bronze, &c. manufactories, 240 Swedenborgian cbapel,Calvinistic Bap- tists, 241 — Scottish kirk, 241—St. Paul’s chapel, 241—Mr. Francis Eg! ginton, an account of him, and of Ids paintings upon, and staining of, glass, 241..244—Mr. Charles Pemberton, his paintings on, and staining of, glass, 244—Wesleyan chapel, Constitution- hill, 245—floor cloth manufactory, 246 •—papier noache manufactory, 246- general hospital, 247—Dr. Ash, 247- musical festival, 247, 248-hmnane so- ciety, 248—asylum for the infant poor, 218,249—steam flourmills, 249—rol-, ling mills of Muntz and Purden, 249 —Phoenix iron foundry, 250—manu- facturers of buttons, lathes, tools, and silver, plated, japanned, and other ar- ticles, &c. 251—Digbeth, 252—Unita- rian charity school, 252—female Lan- casterian school, 252—Smithfield, 252 —weighing machine, 252—Deritend, 253 -St. John’s chape], 253—old hous- es, 253 manufactory' for colouring papers, 254—Trinity chapel, 254—Eli- zabethan-hou.se, 255—Camp-hill, 254, 255, 256—Baptists’-chapel, 256—Lom- bard-house, 256—Beardsworth’s horse and carriage repository, 256,258,259- Fuller’s distillery, 256—metallic hot- house manufactories,256, 257, 259, and 275' national school, 259—royal Lan- casterian school,259—Jews’synagogue, 260—Birmingham canal company, 260 •—Mr. John Baskerville, an account of him, his will, &c. 260. .272—union rolling mills, 272, 273—Roman Catho- lic chapel, 272, 273—brewery, 272, 274—riots, 272—Mr. Cooke’s newly- invented brass and iron tubes and rol- lers, &c. 272—manufactories, foun- dries, &c. Broad-street, 273—the late Charles Lloyd, Esq. 273 — Crescent, 2/4—Zion chapel and Sunday school, 274—Hockley-abbey,275—Glass-hous- es, 276—barracks, 276 — Ashted cha- pel, 276—Holt family, 276.. 280—eagle foundry, 280—wharfs, manufactories, gas and glass works, &c. 281—Hazcl- wood-school, 282 — monument, or “ Perrott’s Folly,” 282 — Edgbaston deaf and dumb asylum, 284—Fdgbas- ton church, 285—Edgbaston-hall, 286 —Worcester and Birmingham canal company, 286—St. Thomas’s church, Holloway-head, 286, 287—relics of antiquity, 287 — government of Bir- mingham, court leet, &c. 288, 289- population and wealth, 289, 290—ex- penditure and endowments, 290—pro- visions, 291—flour mills, 291—religion and politics, 292—war and peace, Mr. Pratt’s interesting account o£ 293,294 —Soho, 294, 295 — trade, 296, 297 — gold, silver, pearl, ivory, bone, &c. 289 —iron, steel, copper, brass, &e. 298- buttons, 298 variety of articles cast, 299-type founding, 299—typographic art, lines upon, 300—directory of Bir- mingham, and classification of trades, 301..408, 409..467—coach directory,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28408111_0912.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
