Swan Village
Swan Village is an area of West Bromwich, in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands County of England. It is now divided by the Black Country New Road and was the site of the Swan Village Gas Works.Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of England and Oak House.
Church of England
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Church of England is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It was the initial church of the Anglican tradition. The church traces its history to the Christian hierarchy recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain by the 3rd century and to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kent led by Augustine of Canterbury.
Oak House
Museum
Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.
The Oak House is a timber framed building dating from the early sixteenth century that is located in West Bromwich, England. The Oak House was built in c. 1620, and while the original owners are not known, the family most closely associated with it are the Turtons, who were living there by 1634; the Turtons also built brick additions to the rear of the house during the 1650s.
Farley Clock Tower
Work of art
Photo: Brianboru100, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Farley Clock Tower is a work of art.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tantany and Great Bridge.
Tantany
Hamlet
Tantany is a residential area of West Bromwich. It is situated to the north of the town centre and consists predominantly of council housing constructed during the 1920s.
Great Bridge
Suburb
Great Bridge is a historic village and district of Tipton in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell in the metropolitan county of the West Midlands, England. It is situated near the towns of Dudley, West Bromwich and Wednesbury.
Hateley Heath
Locality
Hateley Heath is a residential area of West Bromwich, West Midlands.The population of the Sandwell ward taken at the 2011 census was 14,227.
Swan Village
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: area in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
- Categories: village, suburb, and locality
- Location: Sandwell, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.52747° or 52° 31′ 39″ northLongitude
-2.01637° or 2° 0′ 59″ westElevation
479 feet (146 metres)Inception
~1635Named after
from The Swan Inn PH (~1635)Open location code
9C4VGXGM+XFOpenStreetMap ID
node 12363438427OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Irish—“Swan Village” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Swan Village”
- French: “Swan Village”
- Irish: “Swan Village”
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