B6 4AA

NEIGHBOURHOOD REPORT

B6 4AA - Birchfield

Birchfield is located in and between Perry Barr, Aston, Handsworth Wood. Birchfield shares the B6 and B20 postcode with surrounding areas Handsworth Wood, Aston and Perry Barr. The main roads within the area include Birchfield road, This leads on to towards Birmingham city centre. The area is home to many schools, including Birchfield Community Primary School.

The churches include Holy Trinity parish church (Church of England), Perry Barr Methodist Church, Jehovah's Witnesses Gospel Hall in Trinity Road and the Birchfield Gospel Hall.

The Birchfield Harriers were named after the area. The area is represented by Ayoub Khan, the independent MP for Birmingham Perry Barr. It is also represented by a Labour councillor." [1]

Situated in local authority Aston, Birchfield is classed as urban with major conurbation. Nearest towns are Birmingham (2 miles away), Smethwick (3 miles away), West Bromwich (5 miles away), with the capital city, London being 105 miles away.

West Midlands

The West Midlands is a metropolitan county found in central England that was formed in 1974 from parts of Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire and is made up of seven metropolitan boroughs: Walsall, Solihull, Sandwell, Dudley, the City of Wolverhampton, the City of Coventry and the City of Birmingham.

These cities offer plenty of excitement and the area has long had a reputation for industrial heritage, fantastic museums, new and exciting art galleries and a vibrant and entertaining nightlife.

In Dudley for example, there are attractions such as the Dudley Zoo or the Black Country Living Museum, and there is the Dudley Canal and Tunnel as well as the ruins of Dudley Castle and numerous beautiful churches (such as the Church of St. Edmund or the Church of St. James the Great).

There are beautiful churches to be found in Wolverhampton too, from St. Peter's Collegiate Church and St. Peter's Gardens to the Church of St. John.

Also worth a look are Wightwick Manor and Moseley Old Hall. However, the highlight of the West Midlands must surely be the city of Birmingham, a city that has cast off its reputation as an industrial, grim city and swapped manufacturing for culture, the arts and entertaining. This is a city of exquisite dining (particularly the curry) and fantastic nightlife, endless shopping and constant entertainment.

From the impressive National Exhibition Centre to the football at Villa Park, or from watching the cricket at Edgbaston, home of Warwickshire County Cricket Club, to shopping in the stunning Bull Ring Shopping Centre and the space-age Selfridges Store, (designed using a weird 'skin' of 15,000 spun aluminium discs), one thing Birmingham knows how to do is entertain.

Where is it?

Location
Birchfield

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Ward
Aston

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Local Authority
Birmingham

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Council

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Constituency

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County
West Midlands

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Region
West Midlands

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Country
England

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Classification
Urban with Major Conurbation

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Area Type
Metropolitan District

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ONS GSS ID
E00045170

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LSOADZ_NAME
Birmingham 050A

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Government ID
Birmingham 050

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Coordinates
52.496, -1.894

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Phone Code
(0121) xxx xxxx

Nearby Towns

Birmingham	1.8 mi
Smethwick	2.8 mi
West Bromwich	4.7 mi
Oldbury	4.8 mi
Coventry	17.6 mi
Leicester	33.8 mi
Cardiff	89.7 mi
London	104.6 mi
Edinburgh	243.8 mi