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New Hall
New Hall is in the Sutton Trinity ward and the Sutton New Hall ward in north-east Birmingham, six miles from the city centre. The surrounding areas are Reddicap, Walmley, Wylde Green and Sutton Coldfield Town.
New Hall is named after a moated manor house, now a hotel, which dates back to the 12th century. The manorial farmland was centred on Plants Brook which drains south-eastwards, through New Hall Valley, from Sutton Park to the River Tame.
New Hall remained rural until the 1970's when the Thimble End housing estate was built on part of the manorial farmland. After the manor became a hotel in 1988, another slice of farmland, on the west side of Walmley Road, was developed as detached housing.
The remaining farmland was preserved as the New Hall Valley Country Park which forms part of a green corridor between Pype Hayes and Sutton Park.
Demographics, Politics and Housing in New Hall
The part of New Hall to the north of Sir Alfreds Way is in the Sutton Trinity ward and the part to the south is in the Sutton New Hall ward.
This website contains information about demographics, politics and housing in the Sutton Trinity ward and demographics, politics and housing in the Sutton New Hall ward.
New Hall Hotel is a Grade-1-listed moated manor; it is set in 26 acres of landscaped gardens off Walmley Road. The core buildings, which date from 1250, feature panelled walls, mullioned stained-glass and the historic Great Chamber.
The hotel contains 60 rooms, a lounge bar, a restaurant that serves British cuisine, and a brasserie with an outdoor terrace that offers home-cooked favourites. There are 5 function rooms and a spa and health club that includes a sauna, steam room, jacuzzi, gymnasium, tennis court, 9-hole pitch & putt and indoor swimming pool.
New Hall is licensed for civil ceremonies; there is ample parking. The hotel forms part of the Hand Picked chain.
Links: Hotels Hand-Picked Hotels Website
New Hall Valley Country Park
New Hall Valley Country Park consists of 200 acres of meadow, wetland and former arable land.
It is a linear green space that straddles Plants Brook for roughly one mile as it flows from Ebrook Road in Sutton Coldfield Town to Penns Hall and Walmley Golf Club.
The park forms part of a longer green corridor that runs almost continuously from Streetley to Castle Vale. It contains meadows, wetlands, several pools, a picnic area, two playgrounds, cycle & walking paths and an 18th century working water mill.
Kingfisher, grey heron, trout and water voles inhabit the river whereas buzzards, sparrow hawks and other birds of prey hunt in the valley.
The meadows feature colourful wildflowers such as Yellow Rattle, Ragged Robin and Black Knapweed.
The car park and main entrance are located on Wylde Green Road.
Wylde Green Road B76 1QT Open Spaces in Birmingham
New Hall Valley Country Park Website Map
The Bridge Restaurant at New Hall Hotel serves a modern British menu.
Walmley Road B76 1QX 0845 0727 577 Map
Restaurants Outside Inner Circle
Holy Cross and St Francis RC
Holy Cross and St Francis is a Roman Catholic church on Signal Hayes Road.
Signal Hayes Road B76 2RS - 0121 351 2161 - Map
Holy Cross RC School
Holy Cross RC School on Laburnum Drive is a Roman Catholic voluntary-aided co-educational primary school attended by roughly 200 children aged between four and eleven.
Laburnum Drive B76 2SP 0121 675 2158 Map
Faith Primary Schools in Brum Holy Cross Primary Website
Bishop Walsh Catholic School
Bishop Walsh Catholic School on Wylde Green Road is a voluntary-aided co-educational comprehensive that specialises in computing, mathematics and the performing arts.
This school has around 1000 pupils between the ages of 11 and 18. 73% of pupils achieved five GCSE's including Maths and English at A*/C in 2009.
Wylde Green Road B76 1QT 0121 351 3215 Map
Secondary Schools Bishop Walsh Website
Listed Secular Buildings in New Hall
New Hall Mill
New Hall Mill in New Hall Valley Country Park is only one of two working water mills that have survived in Birmingham. The other is Sarehole Mill in Hall Green.
New Hall Mill was built on the foundations of a mediaeval mill in the mid-18th century. Water from Plantsbrook was channelled into the millpond via a leat which has since silted-up; an external overshot wheel operates two millstones for grinding corn.
The mill is managed by a registered charity which operates the machinery on open days.
Links: Secular Listed Buildings
New Hall Mill WebsiteNew Hall Manor
New Hall Manor is on Walmley Road; it consists of an L-shaped mediaeval hall that was built as a hunting lodge for the Earl of Warwick in 1300; a matching L-shaped Tudor wing was constructed in 1590 and a rear Jacobean wing in 1620.
A tower and battlements in the Early English Style were added to the rear wing in 1796 and the hall was partially rebuilt as a Gothic Revival mansion in 1869.
The original mediaeval and Tudor banqueting halls have survived; the interior also features a magnificent newell staircase watched over by heraldic beats. The grounds contain a chapel, cottage, stables and coach house; the manor is surrounded by a moat.
Under the feudal system, the house was owned by the Earls of Warwick but inhabited by local gentry who managed the estate on their behalf. It was purchased by a merchant, Thomas Gibbons, in 1552 and then passed through a series of private owners terminating in the industrialist Sir Alfred Owen (1909-1975). It is now a country house hotel.
Links: Secular Listed Buildings
The following bus routes run through New Hall:
71, 108, 114, 115, 119, 167, 168, 757, 757A, 914Sutton Park Line
The Sutton Park Line runs through New Hall; it travels alongside Eastview Road, passes Bishop Walsh Catholic School and New Hall Valley Country Park, and bridges Ebrook Road and Plants Brook.
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