Great Barr, Staffordshire

Description
Barr, Great, a village and a parish in Staffordshire. The village stands 2 miles E of Great Barr station on the L. & N.W.R., 3 SE of Walsall, and 5 N of Birmingham. It has a post office under Birmingham; money order and telegraph office, Hamstead. The parish comprises 5252 acres ; population, 1388. Great Ban' Hall is a noble modern mansion, standing amid charming grounds, in a beautiful valley, and surrounded by a well-wooded park of 600 acres. It is the seat of the Scott family. An um, near the flower garden, is monumental of Miss Mary Dolman, the cousin of Shen-stone. Barr Beacon, 2 miles NE, is 653 feet high, and commands an extensive view. It is said to have been the seat of the Archdmid, and was used by the Saxons and the Danes as a place of alarm-fires. The living is a vicarage in. the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £518 with residence. The church was entirely rebuilt in 1860, with the exception of the tower and spire. There are a Wesleyan chapel and an endowed school.