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| Sarehole Recreation Ground |
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Sarehole Recreation Ground is a 6-acre tree-lined meadow
adjoining Sarehole Mill at the Cole Valley in the Hall Green
area of south Birmingham. It forms part of the linear Shire Country Park that straddles the Cole Valley for 3.75 miles between Yardley Wood and Small Heath. |
| Guide Hall Green - Map |
| Selcroft/West Boulevard POS (Top) |
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Selcroft/West Boulevard Public Open Space is a 4 acre park with a play area in the Harborne area of south Birmingham; it provides a setting for 4 residential towers: Netley House, Stonleigh House, Tintern House and St Albans House. |
| Guide Harborne - Map |
| Sorrell Park (Top) |
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Sorrell Park is a 6 acre urban park in the Pype Hayes area of Erdington
in north Birmingham. It contains playing fields, landscaped walkways and a playground and is overlooked by Sorrell House, the only residential tower still standing in Pype Hayes. |
| Guide Pype Hayes - Map |
| Sara Park (Top) |
| Sara Park is a 5 acre urban park in the Small Heath area of east Birmingham that contains tree clusters, meadows, hard courts, playgrounds, landscaped pathways and a 57-metre block of flats (Pritchett Tower). |
| Guide Small Heath - Map |
| Sparkhill Park (Top) |
| Sparkhill Park in south Birmingham is a 40 acre urban park with grass pitches, hard courts, play areas, leafy avenues and tree clusters. |
| Guide Sparkhill - Map |
| Scribers Lane (Top) |
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Scribers Lane is a broad-leaved woodland, wetland scrape and
disused millrace next to the Trittiford Mill Pool at the Cole
Valley in the Yardley Wood area of south Birmingham. It is a
Site of Importance for Nature Conservation. Scribers Lane forms part of the linear Shire Country Park that straddles the River Cole for 3.75 miles from Yardley Wood to Small Heath. |
| Yardley Wood - Map |
| Senneleys Park (Top) |
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Senneleys Park is a 65-acre open space in the Bartley Green area of
south Birmingham. It contains copses, meadows, landscaped walkways, scrubland, pitches, playgrounds, formal gardens and an ornamental pond. A traveller convoy of 15 caravans arrived in Senneleys Park on Thursday 18th and Friday 19th August; eviction notices were served the following Monday (News Headlines 24/08/11). |
| Guide Bartley Green - Map |
| Selly Oak Park (Top) |
| Selly Oak Park is a 25 acre urban park that contains meadows, tree clusters, wetlands, playgrounds, the drained channel of the Lapal Canal, and a tree stump that is supposedly the original Selly oak. |
| Guide Selly Oak - Map |
| Sheldon Country Park (Top) |
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Sheldon Country Park is a 300 acre belt of mature and newly-planted
woodland, wetland and meadow that runs for roughly 1.5 miles from the
Coventry Road on its south-west boundary to Birmingham Airport and the
West Coast Mainline on its north-east boundary. The Westley Brook, which has been fenced & canalised, runs through the park which is flanked to the south by Hatchford Brook Golf Club. The terrain is relatively flat and wide pathways have been created, including one hard-surfaced wheelchair-friendly track. A new woodland was created for the millennium and includes five memorial ash trees planted by the Council of Sikh Gurdwara. A 2km walking route and the East Birmingham Cycle Route run through the park which also contains three football pitches and a demonstration farm, the Old Rectory, which specialises in traditional agricultural methods. Guided tours, rambles and craft displays are organised by the Park Rangers who are based at the visitor centre on Ragley Drive, next to the main car park. In June 2010, a new 55-space car park opened at Sheldon Country Park; motorists may use it as an overspill for the neighbouring 96-space park-and-ride at Marston Green Railway Station (News Archive 05/06/10). The body of a 34-year-old woman was found by Westley Brook in Sheldon Country Park at roughly 1pm on Saturday 30th October 2010 (News Report 01/11/10); the woman had been strangled and a 38-year-old man was subsequently charged with her murder (News Report 06/11/10). |
| Ragley Drive B26 3TU - 0121 742 0226 - Map |
| Shire Country Park (Top) |
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Shire Country Park is a chain of open spaces in the Cole Valley
that create a 3.75-mile green corridor from the confluence of
the Cole and Chinn Brook in
Yardley Wood
through Hall Green,
Springfield,
Sparkhill and Greet to
the A45 at Small Heath.
The landscape mainly consists of woodland, wetland, heathland and meadows and includes Joys Wood, Moseley Bog, Sarehole Mill, Sarehole Recreation Ground, Trittiford Mill Pond, John Morris Jones Walkway, the Dingles, Burbury Brickworks, Chinn Brook Recreation Ground and Scribers Lane. Kingfishers, sparrow hawks and woodpeckers are often seen in the Cole Valley whilst warblers visit in summer and redwing & fieldfare in winter. Foxes, bats and water voles are also seen. The park is named after the "Shire": the fictional home of the Hobbits in "Lord of the Rings" whose author J.R.Tolkien lived as a child on Wake Green Road in Moseley. |
| Map of Shire Country Park |
| Short Heath Park (Top) |
| Short Heath Park is an 8 acre urban park in the Erdington area of north Birmingham. It features playing fields, meadows, landscaped pathways and a perimeter of mature trees. |
| Guide Short Heath - Map |
| Spark Green Park (Top) |
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Spark Green Park is a 5 acre urban park in the Sparkbrook area of south Birmingham with landscaped pathways, tree clusters, meadows, hard courts and a playground. It is the sole remaining remnant of an ancient pasture called Spark Green Common. |
| Guide Sparkbrook - Map |
| Small Heath Park (Top) |
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Small Heath Park is a 70 acre urban park with copses, meadows, pitches,
playgrounds, a boating lake and fish pond.
Five teenagers were struck by lightening at Small Heath Park in June 2009; one subsequently died of his injuries. A 56-year-old man exposed himself near children in Small Heath Park on Saturday 19th March 2011 (News Headlines 26/06/11). |
| Guide Small Heath - Map |
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