Sparkbrook
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Christ Church and St Andrew’s.
Christ Church
Church
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Christ Church, Sparkbrook was a church in the Anglican Diocese of Birmingham.
St Andrew’s
Stadium
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St Andrew's, known since 2024 for sponsorship reasons as St. Andrew's @ Knighthead Park, is an association football stadium in the Bordesley district of Birmingham, England.
St Agatha’s Church, Sparkbrook
Church
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The Church of St Agatha is a parish church in the Church of England in Sparkbrook in Birmingham, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Balti Triangle and Highgate.
Balti Triangle
Locality
A balti or bāltī gosht is a type of curry within the United Kingdom served in a thin, pressed-steel wok called a balti bowl. Balti curries are cooked quickly using vegetable oil rather than ghee, over high heat in the manner of a stir-fry, and any meat is used off the bone.
Highgate
Village
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Highgate is an area of Birmingham, England. Following the Big City Plan of February 2008, Highgate has become a district of Birmingham City Centre. The area is regarded as the site of the original Anglo-Saxon settlement which gave the city of Birmingham its name. Birmingham Central Mosque is one of Highgate's most distinctive buildings.
Balsall Heath
Village
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Balsall Heath is an inner-city area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England. It has a diverse cultural mix of people and is the location of the Balti Triangle.
Sparkbrook
- Type: Village with 32,400 residents
- Description: area in south-east Birmingham, England
- Categories: ward, suburb, and locality
- Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.46397° or 52° 27′ 50″ northLongitude
-1.87583° or 1° 52′ 33″ westPopulation
32,400Elevation
394 feet (120 metres)Open location code
9C4WF47F+HMOpenStreetMap ID
node 107429248OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
11611170Wikidata ID
Q2593284
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Sparkbrook” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Sparkbrook”
- Dutch: “Sparkbrook”
- French: “Sparkbrook”
- Georgian: “სპარკბრუკი”
- Irish: “Sparkbrook”
- Japanese: “スパークブルック”
- Polish: “Sparkbrook”
- Venetian: “Sparkbrook”
- Welsh: “Sparkbrook”
- “Sparkbrook”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Sparkbrook”. Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.