First time I've heard of this former road name. Is it nam3d on a map ?
Source: British Newspaper Archive
Source: British Newspaper Archive
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Coffin Lane (became Kings Road) Great Barr
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I cannot see it marked as Coffin Lane on the 1873 maps; it is certainly marked as Kings Road by the turn of the century. It may be a local name and thinking out loud am and taking into consideration that its looks quite an old very straight road I am wondering if it could have been a former corpse road?
What the church established burial rights you could no longer just plant the deceased in the garden, they had to go to a piece of consecrated ground, a churchyard.
The remote rural communities would have to lug the coffin through the countryside which could take some time. There are a few still round and quite often you can find a big flat stone in the hedgerow where you could stop and place the coffin on for a rest.
