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Acocks Green was located two miles north-east of Sarehole (now Hall Green) and J.R.R. Tolkien used to walk to this location to see his uncle. From a letter to a group of primary school children in Acocks Green:
- "I lived till I was 8 at Sarehole and used to walk to A[cocks] G[reen] to see my uncle. It was all 'country' then ..."
- ― J.R.R. Tolkien, Sotheby's, English Literature, History, Children's Books and Illustrations, London, 16 December 2004, p. 274
