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Time Line

Welcome to the Great Barr Timeline. The idea of this page is to record key dates and events in Great Barr history, illustrated by maps and key images.

Each time period has its own page(s). Future Great Barr is catered for in terms of future plans that affect the area. Each years news items will be summarised into an annual update.

10th Century

Staffordshire was divided into five divisions called Hundreds for administrative purposes. These date back to the formation of the county as an administrative unit around the early 10th century in the reign of Edward the Elder. The Hundred courts levied taxes, dealt with law and order matters, and tried some civil and criminal offences

This area was part of the Offlow Hundred forming the south-eastern portion of the county, stretching southwards from the River Dove to the environs of Birmingham, Dudley, Bilston, and Wolverhampton.

c.900

The county of Staffordshire was created in the reign of Edward the Elder (899-925) as an administrative unit.

957

King Eadred (King of the English, 946-955) to Wulfhelm (Miles, fl. 951-957; owner of land in Staffs.) , his minister; grant of 5 hides (mansiunculae) at Little Aston and Great Barr, Staffs.

11th Century

1086

The Domesday register shows that Handsworth (Hunesworde) was part of the possessions of William Fitz-Ansculf, lord of Dudley. The tenancy of Handsworth appears to have been split between Drogo and Walter. Due to possible clerical errors Handsworth appears to have been partly mis-registered with Ansculfs holdings in Oxfordshire (as was West Bromwich, which appears in Northamptonshire).