Handbook of Birmingham

PART I. HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES. 1086--1800.

BY SAM: TIMMINS.

=Origin of Name.=--Eight hundred years ago the name of Birmingham first appeared in history, and almost exactly with the present name of the town. In the famous Domesday Book (1083-1086), compiled for William the Norman, the name is spelled “Bermingeha’,” but the varieties of spelling, from the conquest, have been r...