Gillway is a
council estate
Public housing in the United Kingdom, also known as council estates, council housing, or social housing, provided the majority of rented accommodation until 2011 when the number of households in private rental housing surpassed the number in so ...
in
Tamworth, United Kingdom built in the 1950s. It is a small suburb consisting of brick and concrete houses and two storey flats. It has a local school called Flaxhill and a pub called the Tam 'o' Shanter. It also has shops opposite the pub, and is near the
Leyfields
Leyfields is a housing estate in Tamworth, Staffordshire, consisting of 3-storey flats, maisonettes, bungalows and houses. It was built in the 1960s as a postwar housing estate. It joins the Gillway estate, Claremont Road estate and Coton G ...
and the Perrycrofts estates.
Footballer Tony Coton was born in Gillway at his parents' home, 21 Hawthorne Avenue, on May 19 1961. He also played his junior football for Gillway Boys Club and his school team Flax Hill CP.
Areas of Tamworth, Staffordshire
Housing estates in England
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