Blakedown
Kidderminster is a market town and civil parish in Worcestershire, located 20 miles south-west of Birmingham and 12 miles north of Worcester. Population: 57,400…Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St James the Great and Blakedown railway station.
Blakedown railway station
Railway station
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Blakedown railway station serves the English village of Blakedown, Worcestershire. It was opened as Churchill in 1852, later becoming known for a time as Churchill & Blakedown after the two villages became a single parish.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Churchill and Broome.
Churchill
Village
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Churchill is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Churchill and Blakedown, in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England. It is near to Kidderminster and is the location of one of the few surviving water-powered plating forges in the United Kingdom - Churchill Forge Mill.
Broome
Village
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Broome is a village and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England. The parish had a population of 357 at the 2021 census. The village is situated on the lower slopes of the Clent Hills and lies to one side of Broome Lane, a minor road that runs westwards from the outskirts of Clent to the outskirts of Hagley.
Blakedown
- Type: Village with 1,600 residents
- Description: village in Worcestershire, England, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Churchill and Blakedown, Wyre Forest District, Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.40457° or 52° 24′ 16″ northLongitude
-2.17757° or 2° 10′ 39″ westPopulation
1,600Elevation
279 feet (85 metres)Open location code
9C4VCR3C+RXOpenStreetMap ID
node 4396404791OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12167210Wikidata ID
Q4924567
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Notable Places Nearby
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