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Gipsy Lane

Lady Penelope

Lady Penelope

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Can anyone help with the original route of Gipsy Lane please? The only map I have, pre-cemetery, is a bit fuzzy. I can't tell if what I'm looking at is a track or a stream! It's the 1815 OS one. I'm wondering if it was a track leading up to what is now College Road, crossing what would have been 'the bleak hills'. Other maps are post-cemetery. Thanks.
 
Thanks Pedro, however, the name appears in 'Erdington Vol II' by Peter Drake and Marian Baxter, and the photo is dated 1925 when the houses were well established so I think it's an an older name. It's purported to be the route of the gipsies from the Onion Fair on their way to Sutton Coldfield. I think it may have continued along what is now Faulkner's Farm Drive.
 
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