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Erdington a suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands.
Erdington was an Anglian settlement set up in the Early Middle Ages and by the time of the Norman Conquest was a sub-manor of Aston. Its name derives from the Anglo-Saxon, Eardred ing tun meaning 'Eardred's people's farm' or perhaps the 'village of the Eardredings'. The settlers were either followers of a man called Eardred, or perhaps a clan called with the surname, Eardreding, meaning Eardred's people.
The name Erdington also evolved via Hardintone into Yarnton, and later Yenton. In his First Impressions of Birmingham in 1837, the Birmingham Post journalist Eliezer Edwards wrote that Erdington, was then universally called 'Yarnton', implying that at the time of publication in 1877, this was no longer the case.
Arable land was cultivated here on the Birmingham sandstone ridge. The soils were not especially fertile, and they drained quickly, but they were easier to work than the fertile but unforgiving clay lands to the east. It is not known where the original Anglo-Saxon settlement lay, but by medieval times the village was already centred on Erdington High Street between Six Ways and Holly Lane and straddling the ancient road from Bristol via Lichfield to the north-east of England.
One of Birmingham's oldest man-made objects was found lying on the surface of a garden in Court Lane, Erdington. A handaxe just 13cm long, it had been fashioned out of quartzite a quarter of a million years ago by Neanderthal people and is now exhibited in the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
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Erdington a suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands.
Erdington was an Anglian settlement set up in the Early Middle Ages and by the time of the Norman Conquest was a sub-manor of Aston. Its name derives from the Anglo-Saxon, Eardred ing tun meaning 'Eardred's people's farm' or perhaps the 'village of the Eardredings'. The settlers were either followers of a man called Eardred, or perhaps a clan called with the surname, Eardreding, meaning Eardred's people.
The name Erdington also evolved via Hardintone into Yarnton, and later Yenton. In his First Impressions of Birmingham in 1837, the Birmingham Post journalist Eliezer Edwards wrote that Erdington, was then universally called 'Yarnton', implying that at the time of publication in 1877, this was no longer the case.
Arable land was cultivated here on the Birmingham sandstone ridge. The soils were not especially fertile, and they drained quickly, but they were easier to work than the fertile but unforgiving clay lands to the east. It is not known where the original Anglo-Saxon settlement lay, but by medieval times the village was already centred on Erdington High Street between Six Ways and Holly Lane and straddling the ancient road from Bristol via Lichfield to the north-east of England.
One of Birmingham's oldest man-made objects was found lying on the surface of a garden in Court Lane, Erdington. A handaxe just 13cm long, it had been fashioned out of quartzite a quarter of a million years ago by Neanderthal people and is now exhibited in the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
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