Handsworth

Handsworth is an inner-city area of in the county of the , England, with and to the north, and to the east, Historically in , it was made an urban district in 1894, and became part of the city of Birmingham in November 1911.
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  • Type: Suburb with 11,800 residents
  • Description: district of Birmingham, England, formerly in Staffordshire
  • Also known as: “Handsworth, Birmingham” and “Handsworth, West Midlands”
  • Postal code: B21

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Andrew’s Church and The Hawthorns.

Church
Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.
St Andrew's Church, Handsworth is a Grade I listed parish church in the in Handsworth, West Midlands.

Stadium
Photo: Mattd1991, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an all-seater football in , in the Black Country borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England, with a capacity of 27,087.

Park
Photo: West Midlands Police, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a park in the Handsworth area of , . It lies 15 minutes by bus from the centre of Birmingham and comprises 63 acres of landscaped grass slopes, including a large boating lake and a smaller pond fed by the Farcroft and Grove Brooks, flower beds, mature trees and shrubs with a diversity of wildlife, adjoining St.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Handsworth Wood and Winson Green.

Neighborhood
Photo: Skarim Uk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb and electoral ward of in the West Midlands county, England. is regarded as one of the premier residential areas in Birmingham, due to the significant number of imposing Victorian detached and semi-detached houses.

Suburb
is a loosely defined inner-city area in the west of the city of , England. It is part of the ward of Soho. It is the location of and of City Hospital as well as of the former .

Suburb
is located in and between , , . shares the B6 and B20 postcode with surrounding areas , and .

Handsworth

Latitude
52.5136° or 52° 30′ 49″ north
Longitude
-1.93944° or 1° 56′ 22″ west
Population
11,800
Elevation
404 feet (123 metres)
Open location code
9C4WG376+C6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27457932
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
11551175
Wiki­data ID
Q5647672
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Swedish—“Handsworth” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Հենդուորս, Անգլիա”
  • Basque: “Handsworth”
  • Belarusian: “Хэндсварт”
  • Catalan: “Handsworth”
  • Chinese: “汉兹沃思”
  • Chinese: “汉兹沃斯”
  • Chinese: “漢茲沃思”
  • Chinese: “漢茲沃斯”
  • Czech: “Handsworth”
  • Dutch: “Handsworth”
  • French: “Handsworth”
  • Georgian: “ჰენდსვორთი”
  • German: “Handsworth”
  • Greek: “Χάντσουορθ”
  • Hebrew: “הנדסוורת‘”
  • Irish: “Handsworth, Midlands Thiar”
  • Irish: “Handsworth”
  • Italian: “Handsworth”
  • Japanese: “ハンズワース”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Handsworth”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Handsworth”
  • Polish: “Handsworth”
  • Russian: “Хэндсворт”
  • Slovenian: “Handsworth”
  • Swedish: “Handsworth, West Midlands”
  • Swedish: “Handsworth”

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