The fields form part of the linear Kingfisher Country Park that straddles the Cole Valley for roughly 7 miles between Small Heath and Chelmsley Wood.

A woman in her early thirties was punched and sexually assaulted on the Norman Chamberlain Playing Fields at approximately 10pm on Wednesday 6th January 2010 (News Archive 08/01/10).

Perry Beeches Nature Reserve is a four acre area woodland flanked by the M6 and the Sandy Lane Driving Range in the Great Barr area of north Birmingham.

The reserve has been designated as a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation.

It was once the grounds of Perry Hall: a former ancestral home of the Gough family. The hall has been demolished but its moat has survived.

The River Tame, which meanders through the park, provides wildlife habitats.

The park also contains a herony.

The park contains Alexander Stadium, the High Performance Sports Centre, Aston Manor Cricket Ground and the canal-feeder Perry Reservoir.

Perry Park hosts major events such as the Birmingham International Carnival and the Radio One Big Weekend.

It is owned by Woodhouse Primary School and managed by the Education Authority.

It is rich in plant and wildlife with a network of paths and boardwalks; the Ranger Service organises walks and other activities; there is a car park and visitor centre off Eachelhurst Road, opposite Pype Hayes Park.

The reserve is part of a fragmented green corridor that straddles Plants Brook as it drains from Reddicap Heath through Walmley towards Pype Hayes.

It contains formal gardens, playing fields, playgrounds, meadows, copses, tree clusters, hard courts, tennis courts, landscaped walkways, a bowling green and fishpond.

The park was formerly the grounds of Pype Hayes Hall: a Georgian mansion with Victorian additions. The hall, which is now council offices, was the ancestral home of the Bagot family who sold the Pype Hayes estate to Birmingham City Council in 1920.

Fire crew attended a blaze in an empty building at Pype Hayes Park during the early hours of Sunday 17/04/11 (News Headlines 19/04/11)

It contains formal flower beds, mature wooded areas, a bowling green and tennis courts and is flanked by a 1.5-mile tree-lined perimeter walkway.

The main entrance is on high ground off Queslett Road from where the terrain slopes steeply downwards towards a four acre lake.

The reserve attracts herons, buzzards and other rare bird species despite being blighted by litter and vandalism.

In October 2010, the Friends of Queslett Nature Reserve noted a sudden fall in the duck population that may have been caused by poachers (News Archive 19/10/10).

A man was attacked by a dog and bitten on the hand and face at Queslett Nature Reserve in January 2011; a 19-year-old youth was arrested in connection with the attack (News Headline 08/04/11).

A traveller convoy established an illegal encampment on Quinton Meadows in July 2011 (News Headlines 08/07/11).

Rectory Park is a 70 acre green space in Sutton Coldfield with meadows, copses, sports pitches and a playground. Sutton Coldfield Cricket Club has been based there since 1847.

The park was formerly the grounds of a rectory that was demolished in 1936.

It contains a grade-two listed mansion known as Rookery House (circa 1727), a formal sunken Italian garden, sports pitches, dressing rooms, tennis courts, mature woodland, grassland and play areas.

Rookery House was built for Abraham Spooner, a local ironmaster whose granddaughter married William Wilberforce.

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