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Handsworth , West Midlands is a suburb of Birmingham in England.
It was part of Staffordshire until 1911 when it was incorporated into Birmingham.
History
Handsworth is an Anglo-Saxon name meaning "the land enclosed around hands farmhouse". It was recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086, as a holding of William Fitz-Ansculf, the Lord of Dudley, although at that time it would only have been a very small village surrounded by farmland and extensive woodland.
The name Handsworth is of Saxon origin, from its Saxon owner Hondes and the Anglo-Saxon word weorthing meaning farm or estate. From the 13th century through to the 18th century, it remained a small village until Matthew Boulton who lived at the nearby Soho House set up the Soho Manufactory in 1764 on Handsworth Heath. Accommodation was built for the factory workers, the village quickly grew, and in 1851, there were over six thousand people living in the township. Forty years later over thirty-two thousand were counted at the census of 1881, and by 1911, this had more than doubled to 68,610.
The development of Handsworth was rather sporadic. The result is that many of the roads and streets have a mixture of types and periods of buildings.
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