Birmingham
Details
- Names
Birmingham
Bermingeham
Bremishcham
Brimingeham
Burmingeham
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Nation's second largest city; market town 13th cen.; devastated by plague 1665; as home of many steam engine pioneers, it became nucleus of Industrial Revolution in Britain; severely damaged in WW II; site of experimental town-planning in early 20th cen.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986); Blue Guide: England (1980); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); NGA/NIMA database (2003-); Oxford: English Place Names (1960); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
- Born
- Active
Deakin & Francis (English, 1882-)
Albert E. Jones (English, 1878-1954)
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