GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Knowle & Dorridge: gwrkd2800

Postcard depicting Station Approach, Dorridge before the First World War. Prior to the railway arriving in 1852, the area was mainly farmland with a few scattered dwellings. The provision of a station here was a condition of the local landowners, the Muntz family who lived at Umberslade Hall. Within a few years of the station opening, Dorridge had grown into a sizable community with new houses, shops, Dorridge Grove Asylum, and St Phillip's Church (1878).

Robert Ferris

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