News and Information about Birmingham
|
|
| Home |
| Sitemap |
| Green Maps Brum |
| Botanical Gardens |
| Index - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - Next |
| Parks & Gardens in Birmingham (3/8) |
| Gilbertstone Recreation Ground |
|
Gilbertstone Recreation Ground is a 35 acre urban park in the
Yardley area of east Birmingham. It contains playgrounds, playing fields, tree clusters, tennis courts and the remnants of a medieval moat. |
| Guide Yardley - Map |
| Greet Mill Meadow (Top) |
| Greet Mill Meadow is ten acre strip of meadow and woodland roughly 0.75 miles upstream of the former site of Greet Mill at the Cole Valley in the Hall Green area of south Birmingham. |
| Guide Hall Green - Map |
| Grove Park (Top) |
|
Grove Park is a twelve acre open space in the Harborne area of south
Birmingham. It was formerly the grounds of a long-demolished Georgian mansion known as Grove House that was once the home of Thomas Attwood who campaigned for political reform and was one of the first two MP's to represent Birmingham in 1832. The park, which screens the Harborne Old Village Conservation Area, contains copses, meadows, a lake and an historic oak tree. |
| Guide Harborne - Map |
| Harborne Nature Reserve (Top) |
|
Harborne Nature Reserve is a 9 acre strip of disused allotments that
have been converted into a nature reserve off Pereira Road in the
Harborne area of south Birmingham. The reserve is managed by the West Midland Bird Club. |
| Guide Harborne - Map |
| Harborne Walkway (Top) |
| The Harborne Walkway is a linear green space that follows the former route of the disused Harborne Railway for 1.5 miles from Summerfield Park to Moorpool. |
| Guide Harborne - Map |
| Hawkesley Hall Public Open Space (Top) |
|
Hawkesley Hall Public Open Space is a ten acre wildlife habitat and
designated archaeological site in the Three Estates area of Kings Norton
in south Birmingham. It is the former site of Hawkesley Hall: a mediaeval moated long hall that was garrisoned by Parliamentary troops during the English Civil War and destroyed by Prince Rupert in 1645. |
| Guide Three Estates - Map |
| Highbury Park (Top) |
|
Highbury Park is an 80-acre urban park in the Moor Green/Kings Heath
area of south Birmingham. It was created by combining the Uffculme
Estate, once owned by the Cadbury family, and the neighbouring Highbury
Estate, once owned by the Chamberlain family.
The natural contours of the park slope southwards, from Highbury Hall on Yew Tree Road and the Uffculme Centre on Queensbridge Road, towards the Camp Hill Freight Railway on the south-east boundary. The landscape mainly consists of grassland populated by mature oaks and hawthorn hedges mixed with scrub and imported tree clusters. There are three pools and several exotic gardens including an Italianate shrubbery and Dutch Meadow. The pools, which are inhabited by Mallard, Moorhen & Canadian Geese, attract breeding frogs and thriving insect populations with snails, flatworms, leeches & water boatmen found amidst the yellow flag, wood melick and water starwort. The wooded areas are populated by jays and nuthatches; songbirds are often seen in the scrub and crows & magpies in the grassland. Woodland plants, such as dog's mercury, bluebell and pignut, provide a colourful display in spring. Youths vandalised a Victorian viewing platform in Highbury Park in August 2011; they smashed the stonework and threw the debris over a rocky outcrop (News Headlines 27/08/11). |
| Guide Kings Heath - Guide Moor Green - Map |
| Hill Hook Nature Reserve (Top) |
|
Hill Hook Nature Reserve is a 17 acre green space in the Hill Hook area
of Four Oaks in Sutton Coldfield.
The reserve contains meadows, woodlands, wetlands and a millpond (circa 1750) created by damming a stream in order to power a corn mill that was demolished in 1976. |
| Guide Four Oaks - Map |
| Hodge Hill Common (Top) |
|
Hodge Hill Common is a 20 acre remnant of common grazing land
that was left as a public open space when Hodge Hill was
developed as a residential suburb in the 1930's.
Burial mounds, earthworks and standing stones were recorded on the common in the 19th century, but little of archaeological interest has survived. |
| Guide Hodge Hill - Map |
| John Morris Jones Walkway (Top) |
|
The John Morris Jones Walkway is a riverside path at the Cole Valley in
the Hall Green area of south Birmingham. The walkway, which is named after a local schoolteacher and historian, passes through several historic sites on the River Cole including Sarehole Mill. It forms part of the Shire Country Park which straddles the Cole Valley for 3.75 miles from Yardley Wood to Small Heath. A convoy of travellers camped on the John Morris Jones Walkway in August 2010 (News Archive 26/08/10). |
| Guide Hall Green - Map |
| Joys Wood (Top) |
|
Joys Wood is a nine acre woodland at the Cole Valley in the Springfield area of south Birmingham. The wood, which is named after Joy Fifer who campaigned for its preservation, adjoins the Moseley Bog, a drained millpond that was once a secondary source of power for Sarehole Mill. The wood was declared a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation in 1992. It forms part of the Shire Country Park; a linear green space that runs for 3.75 miles through the Cole Valley from Yardley Wood to Small Heath. |
| Guide Springfield - Map |
| Dell (Top) |
|
The Dell is a 5 acre woodland at the Cole Valley in the Sarehole area of
Hall Green in south Birmingham. It forms part of the Shire Country Park that straddles the River Cole for 3.75 miles from Yardley Wood to Small Heath. |
| Guide Hall Green - Map |
| Index - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - Next |
| Parks and Gardens in Brum |
| Search This Site |
|
|
|
Custom Search
|
| Sponsored Links |
|
|
|
|
| Copyright LACT Limited 2008-11 |