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Little London at the southern end of Sandwell Street was an inhabited area by the later 17th century. (fn. 20) There were 102 recipients of Mollesley's Dole in Caldmore in 1619 and 219 in 1661; the second figure, however, and probably the first also, included Pleck. (fn. 21)
There was development in patches throughout the area by the 18th century. At Little London there was spur-making by the earlier 18th century. (fn. 22) By the 1760s an industrial suburb of metal-workers had developed along Fieldgate and in Windmill Street between Sandwell and Bath Streets, and there were also metal-workers at Caldmore itself. Doveridge along West Bromwich Street south-east of Caldmore included four metal-workers in 1770 as well as two farmers.

From: 'Walsall: The growth of the town', A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17: Offlow hundred (part) (1976), pp. 146-165. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report ... mpid=36189 Date accessed: 08 March 2011.

For parochial purposes the area was a detached part of the township of Walsall foreign until the 19th century. It formed one of the highway districts into which the foreign was divided by 1768. (fn. 20) It was not, however, included with the rest of the foreign in the new borough of Walsall in 1835. Its exclusion led to problems in the administration of the poor law, and the Walsall Improvement and Market Act of 1848 extended the powers of the borough justices to the area for poor-law purposes. (fn. 21) In 1894 it became part of the urban district of Brownhills. (fn. 22)

From: 'Walsall Wood: Local government and public services', A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17: Offlow hundred (part) (1976), pp. 281. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report ... ry=walsall foreign Date accessed: 08 March 2011.