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July 8, 1799.—To be Let, and entered upon immediately, a Messuage or Tenement in High Street, Birmingham, fronting the Women's Market, late in the Holding of Abraham Bullock, Basket-maker, and also five back Houses, let to under tenants, who pay their rents weekly.

The Surveyor published this useful and interesting bit of information:—

November 3, 1800.—The public are most assuredly informed that from the Middle of the High-street, facing the Swan Inn, Birmingham, down Digbeth, and up Deritend to the Middle of the Road facing the Bottom of Ravenhurst Hill, leading to Bradford-street, Bordesley, is 1672 Yards; and over Ravenhurst Hill, down Bradford-street, over the Mill Meadow, by the Moat, and up Spiceal-street, to the Middle of the Street facing the Swan Inn aforesaid, is 1684 Yards; consequently Digbeth Road is nearer by twelve Yards and upwards, and lies more on a Level, as appears by actual Mensuration, taken this 24th Day of October, 1800, by me,

, Land Surveyor.

On April 27, 1801, a return of the population and houses of the town was published, of which the following is a copy:—

The next two advertisements recall a state of the town "for ever and for ever gone."