Timeline of Birmingham History - 1300 - 1399

1399

• 1317: A mill in Witton and Erdington is mentioned and this was probably located on the Hawthorn Brook.
• 1318: A bridge named Bromford Bridge is recorded.
• 1322: It is recorded that merchants were selling wool in Birmingham market.
• 1333: A mill in Erdington named Bromford Mill is recorded in a court roll.
• 1340: The road from Birmingham to Castle Bromwich is again mentioned in a deed.
• 1368: The Old Crown public house in Deritend is believed to have been constructed as a guildhall. If so, it is Birmingham's first school.
• 1379: A traveller records a bridge crossing the River Tame at Handsworth.
• 1381: Residents of Deritend and Bordesley given permission to build a chapel next to the River Rea.
• 1381: Sir John de Birmyneham provides the first reference to Deritend by name, written as Duryzatehende.
• 1390: Thomas de Birmingham is recorded as a cloth merchant.
• 1392: The Guild of the Holy Cross is established in Birmingham.