Smethwick
Smethwick is an industrial town in the Sandwell district, in the county of the West Midlands, England. It lies 4 miles west of Birmingham city centre. Historically it was in Staffordshire and then Worcestershire before being placed into West Midlands county.Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Hawthorns and Smethwick Galton Bridge railway station.
The Hawthorns
Stadium
Photo: Mattd1991, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Hawthorns is an all-seater football stadium in West Bromwich, in the Black Country borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England, with a capacity of 27,087.
Smethwick Galton Bridge railway station
Railway station
Photo: Loganberry, Public domain.
Smethwick Galton Bridge is a split-level railway station in Smethwick, West Midlands, England. It is at a point where two railways' lines cross on two levels.
Smethwick Rolfe Street railway station
Railway station
Photo: David Stowell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Smethwick Rolfe Street is one of two railway stations serving the town of Smethwick, West Midlands, England. It is situated on the Rugby–Birmingham–Stafford line 3¼ miles north west of Birmingham New Street.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Bromwich and Birmingham.
West Bromwich
Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.
West Bromwich, commonly known as West Brom, is a market town in the borough of Sandwell, in the county of the West Midlands, England. Historically part of Staffordshire, it is 5 miles northwest of Birmingham.
Birmingham
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Birmingham, in the West Midlands, is Britain's second-largest city. Known in the Victorian era as the "City of a Thousand Trades" and the "Workshop of the World", Brum, as locals call the city, is enjoying a 21st-century resurgence as a great shopping and cultural destination.
Oldbury
Town
Photo: Gordon Griffiths, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oldbury is a market town in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell, in the county of the West Midlands, England. It is the administrative centre of the borough.
Smethwick
- Type: Town with 53,700 residents
- Description: town in Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, England
- Category: locality
- Location: Sandwell, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.4968° or 52° 29′ 49″ northLongitude
-1.9739° or 1° 58′ 26″ westPopulation
53,700Elevation
515 feet (157 metres)Open location code
9C4WF2WG+PCOpenStreetMap ID
node 27457929OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2637607Wikidata ID
Q1018565
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Satellite Map
Discover Smethwick from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Smethwick” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Սմեթուիք”
- Asturian: “Smethwick”
- Basque: “Smethwick”
- Catalan: “Smethwick”
- Cebuano: “Smethwick”
- Chinese: “斯梅西克”
- Dutch: “Smethwick”
- Esperanto: “Smethwick”
- Finnish: “Smethwick”
- French: “Smethwick”
- German: “Smethwick”
- Hebrew: “סמטוויק”
- Irish: “Smethwick”
- Italian: “Smethwick”
- Japanese: “スメジック”
- Korean: “스메트윅”
- Ladin: “Smethwick”
- Latvian: “Smetika”
- Lithuanian: “Smedikas”
- Lithuanian: “Smethwick”
- Lithuanian: “Smetikas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Smethwick”
- Persian: “اسمتویک”
- Polish: “Smethwick”
- Romanian: “Smethwick”
- Russian: “Сметвик”
- Russian: “Сметик”
- Scots: “Smethwick”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Smethwick”
- Slovenian: “Smethwick”
- Spanish: “Smethwick”
- Swedish: “Smethwick”
- Urdu: “سمتھ وک”
- Welsh: “Smethwick”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Blue Gates Crossing Bridge and Smethwick Library.
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