Earlswood is a small village in

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Av ...

, England in the

Tanworth-in-Arden Tanworth-in-Arden (; often abbreviated to Tanworth) is a small village and civil parish in the county of Warwickshire, England. It is southeast of Birmingham and northeast of Redditch, and is administered by Stratford-on-Avon District Council ...

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of the Stratford-on-Avon District. However, the northernmost part of the village lies within Tidbury Green

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in the Solihull Metropolitan Borough of the

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. A hamlet called Warings Green also lies in the south east of the village, with the northernmost point crossing into the parish of Cheswick Green in the borough of`Solihull. The village's

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, B94, is in the Birmingham postcode area. It is in the ecclesiastical

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of St Patrick, Salter Street. The village is surrounded by farmland and forests and it gives its name to Earlswood Lakes (entirely within Warwickshire) as well as to Earlswood railway station (on the border with West Midlands), even though

The Lakes railway station The Lakes is a railway station located on the North Warwickshire Line in the north of Stratford-on-Avon District in Warwickshire, England. The nearest settlement is the village of Earlswood. Opened by the Great Western Railway as ''The Lake ...

is located closer to the main part of the village.

Amenities

Earlswood Lakes Windmill and Engine Pools

The Earlswood Lakes are close to the centre of the village. There are numerous footpaths for walking around the lakes and in the adjacent

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. It is possible to fish in some of the lakes and there is a

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club. The village has a convenience store,

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(also the home of the village

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), garage and

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. Earlswood is in the

of St Patrick. The village is also home to Earlswood Town F.C.

Transport

Earlswood has a range of transport links. The

M42 motorway The M42 motorway runs north east from Bromsgrove in Worcestershire to just south west of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, passing Redditch, Solihull, the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) and Tamworth on the way, serving the east of the ...

(Junctions 3 and 4 ) is a few minutes away and

, in Malthouse Lane, has hourly services to and . There is a limited bus service from the village to

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and

Redditch Redditch is a town, and local government district, in north-east Worcestershire, England, approximately south of Birmingham. The district has a population of 85,000 as of 2019. In the 19th century, it became the international centre for the ...

, operated by

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Minibuses.

History

A brick church dedicated to St. Patrick was built at Salter Street in 1840 and the area formed into an

in 1843. A

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with five

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s was added in 1860 by Thomas Burman in memory of his father; and in 1899 the body of the church was rebuilt. The

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, now known as Earlswood, is a

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in the gift of the

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of Tanworth.

References

External links

Photographs of Earlswood's Past
Villages in Warwickshire Villages in the West Midlands (county) Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull {{Warwickshire-geo-stub