Warstock Lane Bridge, Birmingham - geograph

Warstock is a district within the city of

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

, UK, in the southernmost

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roughly 1 km east of the

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and within the ward of

Highter's Heath Highter's Heath (often Highters Heath) is a district and ward lying on the southern boundary of the city of Birmingham, United Kingdom, UK. The district of Highter's Heath lies immediately east of the Maypole, Birmingham, Maypole. The first reco ...

. The area lies within the B14 postcode and is contiguous with

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to the north-east,

Solihull Lodge Solihull Lodge is a residential area of Solihull (to the southwest of Shirley), near its border with Birmingham (Yardley Wood and Warstock Warstock is a district within the city of Birmingham, UK, in the southernmost suburbs roughly 1 km ...

to the south-east and

to the south-west.

Kings Heath Kings Heath (historically, and still occasionally King's Heath) is a suburb of south Birmingham, England, four miles south of the city centre. Historically in Worcestershire, it is the next suburb south from Moseley on the A435, Alcester road. ...

lies to the north-west. The core (i.e. uncontentiously defined area) of the suburb is centred on Daisy Farm Road and is the smallest widely recognised district within Birmingham
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. To the west of the core area some properties favour the wider B14 moniker of Kings Heath whilst the boundary with Highter's Heath is also undefined. The core area includes the Highters Heath Community (primary) School and is served by

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no. 2 bus route. The housing in Warstock is mostly terraced and semi-detached, for the most part built in and around the 1930s, to house the result of the first

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. Two areas initially developed in the 1950s have since been rebuilt, namely Shorters Avenue and Whitlock Grove / Moundsley Grove. There are a number of shops sited across two locations on Prince of Wales Lane. Those on the east side of the road (between Grafton Road and High Street), which includes Warstock Post Office, are actually within

Solihull MBC The Metropolitan Borough of Solihull is a metropolitan borough in West Midlands county, England. It is named after its largest town, Solihull, from which Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council is based. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region ...

, although their postcode remains Birmingham B14. There were many pubs in and around this area but in recent years all but a few have closed and been demolished. The Bagnall Arms (School Road/Warstock Lane), The Warstock (Prince of Wales Lane/Yardley Wood Road), The Haven (251 School Road, later known as The Mercury), The Valley (Yardley Wood Road/Haunch Lane), and The Maypole (at the

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) have all been demolished. The Dog and Partridge (146 Priory Road) still stands but is now used as a church. The nearest surviving pubs are now The Prince of Wales at the southern end of Prince of Wales Lane (closed as of June 2021, and rumoured to be replaced by a nursing home), The Horseshoe on Alcester Road, The Lodge in

, and DJ Quinns formally Behans Bar and originally The Sherwood on Highfield Road, along with Yardley Wood Social Club at the northern end of Prince of Wales Lane.

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