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Major's Green
Major's Green is a village in the Wythall parish of Bromsgrove district and is the northeastern-most settlement in the county of Worcestershire, England. The village is served by Whitlocks End railway station as well as bus service A4 to Solihull, and is the location of The Drawbridge Public House named after the adjacent drawbridge on the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal. The village is closely associated with the surrounding West Midlands county (3 of the 4 roads from the village lead into the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull) in respect of transport and amenities, and as such can also be considered an outer suburb of Shirley. Indeed the village was located within Solihull Municipal Borough and hence the county of Warwickshire until 1962. Originally the county boundary had continued along the River Cole between Houndsfield Lane northward to Peter Brook but in the 13th century it moved half a mile westwards to Trueman's Heath (The Fordrough) and the 700 year old pre-1962 border cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bromsgrove (district)
Bromsgrove is a local government district in Worcestershire, England. Its council is based in the town of Bromsgrove. It borders the built up area of Birmingham to the north. Other places in the district include Alvechurch, Aston Fields, Belbroughton, Catshill, Clent, Hagley, Rubery, Stoke Prior and Wythall. The current district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of Bromsgrove urban district and Bromsgrove rural district. Bromsgrove forms part of the Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership. Population The following table illustrates the change in the district's population between 1801 and 2011. Transport Bromsgrove railway station is the local station for the district's centre, but there are several others within the district. Road travel, especially to Birmingham, is also important in the district. Barnt Green railway station and Alvechurch railway station are on the line to Redditch. Hagley railway station and Wythall railway station are als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B Postcode Area
The B postcode area, also known as the Birmingham postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of 79 postcode districts in central England, within 15 post towns. These cover the central portion of the West Midlands (including Birmingham, West Bromwich, Sutton Coldfield, Smethwick, Solihull, Halesowen, Cradley Heath, Oldbury and Rowley Regis), plus northeast Worcestershire (including Bromsgrove and Redditch), north and west Warwickshire (including Alcester, Studley and Henley-in-Arden), and part of southeast Staffordshire (including Tamworth) and a very small part of Leicestershire. __TOC__ Coverage The approximate coverage of the postcode districts: ! B1 , BIRMINGHAM , Birmingham City Centre, Broad Street (east) , Birmingham , - ! B2 , BIRMINGHAM , Birmingham City Centre, New Street , Birmingham , - ! B3 , BIRMINGHAM , Birmingham City Centre, Newhall Street , Birmingham , - ! B4 , BIRMINGHAM , Birmingham City Centre, Corporation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Heath
Small Heath is an area in south-east Birmingham, West Midlands, England situated on and around the Coventry Road about from the city centre. History Small Heath, which has been settled and used since Roman times, sits on top of a small hill. The slightly elevated site offers poor agricultural land, lying on a glacial drift of sand, gravel, and clay, resulting in a heathland that provides adequate grazing for livestock. The land, therefore, seems to have developed as a pasture or common land, on which locals could graze their animals. However, the site lies directly on the route between Birmingham and Coventry, and so was probably used by drovers transporting animals to and from the two cities, and the livestock markets within each. The Coventry Road itself was first recorded in 1226, leading from the Digbeth crossing of the River Rea. At this time Birmingham was a medieval market town whilst Coventry was a major city of national importance. In 1745, the Coventry Turnpike was cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelmsley Wood
Chelmsley Wood is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England, with a population of 12,453. It is located near Birmingham Airport and the National Exhibition Centre. It lies about eight miles east of Birmingham City Centre and 5 miles to the north of Solihull. The town is also close to both Coleshill and Water Orton in Warwickshire. In 1966 Birmingham City Council compulsorily purchased the ancient woodland and built the 15,590 dwelling council estate to rehouse families on its council house waiting list. With the rise in unemployment in the 1970s parts of the estate suffered from deprivation and anti-social behaviour. The area established a town council. Local government re-organisation in 1974 transferred the town to Solihull Metropolitan Borough, though responsibility for the housing remained with Birmingham until September 1980. History Chelmsley Wood was built by Birmingham City Council in the late 1960s and early 70s on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Worcestershire Path
The North Worcestershire Path is a waymarked long-distance trail within the historic county of Worcestershire in England. It runs from Bewdley to Major's Green, Birmingham. The route The North Worcestershire Path begins at the Georgian town of Bewdley, also the starting point for the Worcestershire Way. Running north along the River Severn to Eymore Wood near to the Trimpley Reservoirs, the route then heads east to Kingsford Country Park and Kinver Edge near the Staffordshire Way, before continuing east towards the Clent Hills. From the Clent Hills the route goes south to the densely wooded Lickey Hills The Lickey Hills (known locally as simply ''The Lickeys'') are a range of hills in Worcestershire, England, to the south-west of the centre of Birmingham near the villages of Lickey, Cofton Hackett and Barnt Green. The hills are a popular countr ..., where it winds up through Scots Pine and native woodland past a visitor's centre. From the Lickey Hills the route winds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berry Mound
Berry Mound is an Iron Age hill fort in the Bromsgrove (district), Bromsgrove district of Worcestershire, near Shirley, West Midlands, on the outskirts of Birmingham. It has been dated to the 1st or 2nd century Anno Domini, BC. The fort covers , measuring from north to south and from east to west. It is surrounded by a wide earth rampart. To the north was a V-shaped ditch that was wide and deep, to the south one wide and deep. Faint traces of a second rampart or defensive terrace to the north were observed in 1959, and 19th century observers recorded the existence of a third line of ramparts and ditches, though no traces of these remain. The entrance to the fort was on the east side, though it is possible that there was originally a second entrance located on an axis with the first, as at the similar Sutton Walls Hill Fort. The site was excavated in 1959, with traces of timber revetments being found on the ramparts. The site has previously been known as "Danes camp field" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Light Hall School
Light Hall School is a secondary school located in Shirley, West Midlands, England. Light Hall School was established on Hathaway Road in 1965 as a boys' grammar school on land once belonging to Light Hall Farm. Light Hall School is one of sixteen secondary schools in the UK Metropolitan Borough of Solihull. The school has over 1,170 students, from ages eleven to sixteen. The school suffered from a fire in February 2006; a new building was opened in October 2008 to replace the destroyed classrooms. The new building has classrooms for mathematics, English, music and drama. It also has a new dining hall, library, media studies classrooms and offices. The Design and Technology Block was refurbished in April 2013 with a new CAD/CAM room which has a laser and 3D printers. References External linksSchool's website {{authority control Academies in Solihull Schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodrush High School
Woodrush High School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in the parish of Wythall in the English county of Worcestershire. Woodrush High School offers GCSEs, BTECs and Cambridge Nationals as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels and further BTECs. As of 2018, the school also started enrolling higher ability students onto the Mandarin Excellence programme. As of the most recent Ofsted inspection published in January 2019, the school has 1002 enrolled pupils, 96 of whom are in the Sixth Form. In this inspection the school were graded overall 'good' with 'outstanding' leadership and management and 'outstanding' behaviour. School history Established in 1958, it later became a foundation school administered by Worcestershire County Council. In July 2011 Woodrush High School converted to academy status, but continues to coordinate with Worcestershire County Council for admissions. In Nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tidbury Green
Tidbury Green is a village and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the county of West Midlands in England. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 census was 1,130. Historically, Tidbury Green belonged to the county of Warwickshire. At the beginning of the 20th century, the area was Tidbury Green Farm. It was owned by H. A. W. (Henry Aylesbury Walker) Aylesbury, having passed into his hands from the ownership of the Roberts family in the 1700s and early 1800s. The estate was sold in 1918 after Aylesbury's death, an example of land redistribution caused by the First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin .... After the Second World War it had a thriving Vegetable Growers Association. In 1995 a new school replacing the forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood, Worcestershire
Hollywood is a large village predominantly located in the Bromsgrove district of Worcestershire, England, almost contiguous with and to the south of the city of Birmingham. Hollywood was formerly part of Kings Norton, but when Birmingham expanded in 1911, Hollywood remained in Worcestershire. The village now lies across the wards of Hollywood, most of Drakes Cross, the Trueman's Heath polling district area of Trueman's Heath parish ward and, following a 1966 border change, the southern portion of the Birmingham Highter's Heath ward, with all but the latter being located within the civil parish of Wythall. The southern part of the village is also known as Drakes Cross, whilst the eastern part is sometimes referred to as Trueman's Heath. Hollywood is situated in the extreme northeastern corner of Worcestershire, 8.5 miles / 13 km south of Birmingham city centre, 6 miles / 9.5 km west-southwest of Solihull and 9 miles / 14.5 km northeast of Redditch. History Until the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Government Boundary Commission For England
The Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) is a parliamentary body established by statute to conduct boundary, electoral and structural reviews of local government areas in England. The LGBCE is independent of government and political parties, and is directly accountable to the Speaker's Committee of the House of Commons. History and establishment The Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009, which received royal assent on 12 November 2009, provided for the establishment of the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE), and for the transfer to it of all the boundary-related functions of the Boundary Committee for England of the Electoral Commission. The transfer took place in April 2010. Responsibilities and objectives The Local Government Boundary Commission for England is responsible for three types of review: electoral reviews; administrative boundary reviews; and structural reviews. Electoral reviews An electoral re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Cole, West Midlands
The River Cole is a river in the English Midlands. It source (river), rises on the lower slopes of Forhill, one of the south-western ramparts of the Birmingham Plateau, at Red Hill and flows south before flowing largely north-east across the plateau to enter the River Blythe below Coleshill, near Ladywalk Reserve, Ladywalk, shortly before the Blythe meets the River Tame, West Midlands, Tame. This then joins the River Trent, Trent, whose waters reach the North Sea via the Humber, Humber Estuary. Its source is very near the main watershed of Midland England : tributaries are few and very short except in the lower reaches, so the Cole is only a small stream. Geology Average gradient of the central reaches is 10 1/2 feet in a mile. There is a fast run-off from the drift covered Keuper marl clay which makes up its catchment area, and heavy rain produces sudden floods; in the absence of replenishing side-streams these subside as quickly as they rise. The Cole is normally shallow, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
