Wake Green () is a historical area in south

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between Moseley, Kings Heath, and

Hall Green Hall Green is an area in southeast Birmingham, England, synonymous with the B28 postcode. It is also a council constituency, managed by its own district committee. Historically it lay within the county of Worcestershire. Politics Hall Green is ...

. Like nearby

Sarehole Sarehole () is an area in Hall Green, Birmingham, England. Historically in Worcestershire, it was a small hamlet in the larger parish, and manor, of Yardley, which was transferred to Birmingham in 1911. Birmingham was classed as part of Warwick ...

it is no longer a postal address. It used to straddle the parish boundary of Yardley (

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at the time) and Kings Norton and was an area of "waste land", that is, land which had not yet been cultivated. In the past it had a

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(windmill) – Wake Green Mill – mentioned in a deed of 1664 when it was in the possession of Richard Grevis. This was just above what is now Moseley Bog. As the outskirts of Birmingham became built upon around the turn of the twentieth century, Wake Green disappeared beneath the growing "villages" of Moseley and Kings Heath, eventually becoming the centre of a new parish of Saint Agnes, Moseley (now a

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). Its name lives on in Wake Green Road.

Wake Green Road

Wake Green Road runs from the centre of Moseley for about two miles to the south east. It has several

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s along it: * four early 20th century houses (two of them in the St. Agnes conservation area) *

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, also known as Spring Hill College * a row of sixteen listed single storey Phoenix prefabs, built 1945 under the Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act, and still occupied It also has the house

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first lived in (the Gracewell cottages) when he came to England at the age of four, in a hamlet then called Sarehole, opposite

Sarehole Mill Sarehole Mill is a Grade II listed water mill, in an area once called Sarehole, on the River Cole in Hall Green, Birmingham, England. It is now run as a museum by the Birmingham Museums Trust. It is known for its association with J. R. R. Tol ...

References

External links

Birmingham City Council, Map of St Agnes Conservation Area, PDF (515Kb)

Birmingham City Council, St Agnes Conservation Area leaflet, PDF (1Mb)
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