It was created as the first public park in the city by local landowner Charles Bowyer Adderley in 1855.

Adderley Park contains cricket nets, play areas, hard courts, meadows, landscaped walkways and tree clusters

The park was once the grounds of Aston Hall, an early Jacobean mansion built by Sir Thomas Holte which stands on a rise, next to the formal gardens laid out by the Birmingham Civic Society in the 1920's.

The gardens, whose centrepiece is a fountain with a statue of Pan by William Bloye, follow the natural contours of the park, gently downwards through a series of terraces flanked by lawns, towards Bevington Road on the western boundary.

The gradient is steeper on the northern boundary where the ground falls away towards Villa Park whilst the eastern boundary is flanked by the concrete stilts of the elevated Aston Expressway.

The park contains grass pitches, children's play areas, toilets, a floodlit multi-purpose artificial pitch and a sports pavilion with kitchen, community room and changing rooms.

Both the park and hall are part of the Aston Conservation Area.

The reserve contains a grade-two-listed timber-framed water mill (circa 1650), keepers cottage (circa 1750), mill pool and leats.

The surrounding landscape includes wetlands, meadows and woodlands.

Babb's Mill forms part of the Kingfisher Country Park that straddles the Cole Valley for seven miles between Small Heath and Chelmsley Wood.

The woodland is near the flood-balancing reservoir next to Rubery Great Park.

The park contains a meadow, hard court, playground and landscaped pathways; most of its trees were destroyed by a freak tornado in July 2005.

The reservoir has a surface area of 125 acres and a sloping floor that is 5 feet deep at its east end and 60 feet deep at its west end.

Water is received via a covered aqueduct from the Elan Valley in central Wales. Gravel and concrete slabbing prevent discolouration by red marl bedrock.

Bartley Reservoir is popular with birdwatchers and watersport enthusiasts.

It contains meadows, tree clusters and scrub; the perimeter is partially tree-lined and flanked to the north by the West Coast Mainline.

Travellers established an illegal camp at this park in September 2010. A caravan was stripped of its fittings and abandoned there (News Archive 12/09/10).

Magistrates fined a 52-year-old man for fly-tipping at Bachelors Farm Park in November 2010 (News Report 02/11/10).

It is the mainstay of the Billesley Sports Village that includes Moseley Rugby Club, Billesley Tennis Centre and the community leisure centre at Swanshurst School.

The southern tip of the common is scrub and natural heathland.

It features ponds, woodlands, wildflower meadows, wheelchair-friendly pathways, wind, solar and water recycling systems.

Birmingham Eco Park is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country and is mainly staffed by volunteers.

The hall is screened from the recreation ground by a wooded embankment.

It straddles the Bourn Brook for roughly three quarters of a mile as it drains eastwards into Selly Oak.

The walkway is a Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation and a Key Wildlife Corridor.

It was laid out by George Cadbury in the early 1900's and contains copses, meadows, playgrounds, lawns and tennis courts.

The Bourn Brook, a tributary of the River Rea, meanders through the park.

Bournville Park is part of the Bournville Village Conservation Area

Brookvale Park is a narrow belt of wood and grassland adjoining a disused Victorian drinking-water reservoir (circa 1890) in the Stockland Green area of Erdington.

The reservoir, which contains a small wooded island, was created by damming two tributaries of the River Tame in order to flood a hollow on the west side of Gravelly Hill.

After it was polluted in the early 1900's, the reservoir became an open-air lido and is now a leisure amenity popular with watersport enthusiasts.

The park contains a bowling green, play area, tennis courts and the Brookvale and Sparkhill Sailing Club; there is a circular path around the reservoir.

A dead body was found in Brookvale Park on Tuesday 5th February 2010 (News Archive 05/02/10).

It was once a clay quarry and brickworks but is now natural marshland populated by young oaks.

The walkway is part of the Shire Country Park that straddles the Cole Valley for 3.75 miles from Yardley Wood to Small Heath.

It contains landscaped pathways, formal gardens, tree clusters, meadows, hard courts and play areas. A tapered extension on the northern boundary straddles the River Rea which flows through the park.

A man was robbed of his Staffordshire Bull Terrier at knifepoint in Calthorpe Park in August 2009 (News Archive 28/02/10).

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