Kings Standing Wood
Kings Standing Wood is a forest in England, United Kingdom. Kings Standing Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Banners Gate, as well as near the suburb Kingstanding.Places of Interest
Highlights include The Streetly Academy and King’s Standing Bowl Barrow.
The Streetly Academy
School
The Streetly Academy is a large co-educational secondary school in Streetly, West Midlands, England, on the border of Birmingham and Walsall local authorities.
King’s Standing Bowl Barrow
Archaeological site
Photo: Adrian Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
King's Standing Bowl Barrow or Kingstanding Mound, is a scheduled monument in the Kingstanding area of Birmingham. It comprises the buried and earthwork remains of a bowl barrow from the late Neolithic to the late Bronze Age, lying alongside the Icknield Street Roman road to the South of Sutton Park.
Perry Barr Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Pigsonthewing, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Perry Barr Reservoir is a covered drinking water reservoir, in north Birmingham, England, operated by Severn Trent Water. Built for the then Birmingham Corporation Water Department, on the site of the former Perry Barr Farm, it is not, despite its name, in the modern Perry Barr area, but nearby Kingstanding, at grid reference SP083951.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kingstanding and Pheasey.
Kingstanding
Suburb
Photo: Pigsonthewing, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kingstanding is an area in north Birmingham, England. It gives its name to a ward in the Erdington council constituency. Kingstanding ward includes the areas; Perry Common, Witton Lakes.
Pheasey
Suburb
Photo: Adrian Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pheasey is a residential area of Walsall Metropolitan Borough in the West Midlands of England, often considered to be part of Great Barr. The area was predominantly developed for housing, as the Pheasey Estate, in the 1930s, but work was not completed until after the Second World War. Barr Beacon, a hill, is a local landmark.
Queslett
Suburb
Queslett is an area of Great Barr, on the border of Birmingham, and Aldridge, England. The name has been in use since the 16th century. The first part, from "Queest", means a wood pigeon, the second comes from the Anglo-Saxon "slade", for a small valley.
Kings Standing Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.56667° or 52° 34′ northLongitude
-1.88333° or 1° 53′ westElevation
528 feet (161 metres)Open location code
9C4WH488+MMGeoNames ID
2645444
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