Northfield
Northfield is a residential area in outer south Birmingham, in the county of the West Midlands, England, near the boundary with Worcestershire, which it was historically within.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 10,400 residents
- Description: residential area on the southern outskirts of metropolitan Birmingham, England
- Also known as: “Northfield, Birmingham”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Laurence’s Church, Northfield and Northfield railway station.
St Laurence’s Church, Northfield
Church
Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Laurence's Church, Northfield is a parish church in the Church of England in Northfield, Birmingham. The church is in a conservation area near nail maker's cottages, the Great Stone Inn, the old school and the Village Pound.
Northfield railway station
Railway station
Photo: AmosWolfe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Northfield railway station serves the Northfield area of Birmingham, England. It is situated on the Cross-City Line, and is managed by West Midlands Trains, who also operate all of the rail services that serve it.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Turves Green and Austin Village.
Turves Green
Village
Turves Green is an area of Birmingham partly in West Heath and partly in Northfield. In addition the area of Longbridge borders Turves Green. A road with the simple name Turves Green runs through the area.
Austin Village
Locality
Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Austin Village is a First World War housing estate of prefabs between Longbridge and Northfield, Birmingham. Herbert Austin, who created the Austin Motor Company at Longbridge in 1905, had to take on more workers during the First World War when his factory became involved in making tanks and aircraft.
West Heath
Suburb
West Heath is a residential area of Birmingham, England on the boundary with Worcestershire. Forming the larger part of the ward of Longbridge And West Heath it is situated between Kings Norton, Northfield, Longbridge and Cofton Hackett and lies on traditional heathland formed in the 13th century as part of the Kings Norton manorial lands, and was historically in Worcestershire.
Northfield
- Category: locality
- Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.41172° or 52° 24′ 42″ northLongitude
-1.96343° or 1° 57′ 48″ westPopulation
10,400Elevation
581 feet (177 metres)Open location code
9C4WC26P+MJOpenStreetMap ID
node 20980321OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2641355Wikidata ID
Q7059349
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In Other Languages
From French to Urdu—“Northfield” goes by many names.
- French: “Northfield”
- Irish: “Northfield, Birmingham”
- Irish: “Northfield”
- Japanese: “ノースフィールド (バーミンガム)”
- Japanese: “ノースフィールド”
- Polish: “Northfield”
- Swedish: “Northfield, West Midlands”
- Swedish: “Northfield”
- Urdu: “نارتھفیلڈ، برمنگھم”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Northfield”. Photo: Adrian Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.0.