Joseph Beete Jukes

“ There rise from this plain several hills and ridges of higher land, of which the following are the principal:—
1. The ridge of Bromsgrove Lickey, of which the highest point is said to be upwards of 900 feet above the sea.
2. The group of the Clent Hills, of which the highest point is about 950 feet above the sea.
3. The group of the Rowley Hills, of which the highest is about 820 feet above the sea. ”

“ On the west of that ridge the streams run either directly into the Stour, or into the Smester Brook, which, rising just west of Wolverhampton, runs nearly due south to join the Stour near Stourbridge. On the east of the ridge, lying between it and the high ground of Barr Beacon, is the basin of the Tame river ”