Cradley Heath
Cradley Heath is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England. It is in the Black Country, 8 miles west of Birmingham. The town was known for the manufacture of chains in the first half of the twentieth century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Cradley Heath Baptist Church and Cradley Heath railway station.
Cradley Heath Baptist Church
Church
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Cradley Heath Baptist Church, also known as Four-ways Baptist Church, was the first Church of any denomination to build a chapel in Cradley Heath, West Midlands.
Cradley Heath railway station
Railway station
Photo: Peter Whatley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cradley Heath railway station serves the town of Cradley Heath in the West Midlands of England. It is on the Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster line.
Doulton’s Claypit
Nature reserve
Photo: Brian Clift, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Doulton's Claypit is a 3.3 hectares geological site of Special Scientific Interest in the West Midlands. The site was notified in 1986 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and is currently managed by the Country Trust.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mushroom Green and Cradley.
Mushroom Green
Locality
Photo: Brian Clift, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mushroom Green is a hamlet in the Dudley Wood/Netherton area of Dudley, West Midlands, England. It is known for its traditional chain making shop, which is the only remaining chain shop in its original grounds in Europe.
Cradley
Village
Photo: billypicks, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cradley is a village in the Black Country and Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the county of the West Midlands, England, near Halesowen and the banks of the River Stour.
Cradley Heath
- Category: locality
- Location: Sandwell, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.47214° or 52° 28′ 20″ northLongitude
-2.08361° or 2° 5′ 1″ westPopulation
5,000Elevation
358 feet (109 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CRHOpen location code
9C4VFWC8+VHOpenStreetMap ID
node 538299870OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Cradley Heath” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Cradley Heath”
- Cebuano: “Cradley Heath”
- Chinese: “克拉德利海斯”
- Dutch: “Cradley Heath”
- French: “Cradley Heath”
- Irish: “Cradley Heath”
- Ladin: “Cradley Heath”
- Polish: “Cradley Heath”
- Swedish: “Cradley Heath”
- Welsh: “Cradley Heath”
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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 “Cradley Heath”. Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.