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| | Smethwick |
 | | Before the late 18th century Smethwick was an outlying hamlet of the South Staffordshire village of Harborne, a district of scattered cottages and small farms, country lanes, heaths and woodland. |
 | | Smethwicks reputation for engineering continued to grow, as did the size of its population, which by 1901 was 54,539 as oposed to 1,097 in 1801. |
 | | Smethwick’s coat of arms became redundant in 1966, as it lost its status as a single County Borough and was absorbed into the new County Borough of Warley in Worcestershire. |
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