It is flanked by the Business Quarter, Westside, Ladywood, Lozells, Handsworth, Newtown and Winson Green.

Hockley is a corruption of Hocca's leah meaning a woodland clearing belonging to Hocca.

It was traditionally an industrial area, particularly coin and medal minting, jewellery and pen manufacture, electroplating and printing.

The townscape features numerous Victorian red-brick workshops and factories, many of which have been converted into apartments and offices with the remainder having been cleared for new industrial, commercial and housing developments.

Hockley contains the Jewellery Quarter, which still manufactures 40% of UK all jewellery, and the Golden Triangle, which contains over 300 jewellery stores, showrooms, workshops and factories.

Other attractions include an upmarket leisure and entertainment quarter centred on St Pauls Square.

Hockley also contains Soho Hill where Mathew Boulton built the Soho Manufactory in 1763. His former home, Soho House, is now a museum.

This website contains more information about Hockley, Birmingham.