Kingshurst
Kingshurst is a large post-war suburban village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, in the West Midlands, England. Historically part of the county of Warwickshire in the Meriden Rural District, It lies about 7 miles north of Solihull town centre, 10 miles east of Birmingham and 13 miles northwest of Coventry, it borders North Warwickshire to the east.- Type: Village with 8,350 residents
- Description: village in West Midlands, England, UK
- Also known as: “Kingshurst, West Midlands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Barnabas‘ Church and Yorks Wood.
Yorks Wood
Forest
Yorks Wood is a Local Nature Reserve in Kingshurst, Solihull, England. It is an 11 hectares ancient wood of predominantly oak trees. The River Cole is located south of the wood and located within Kingfisher Country Park.
John Henry Newman Catholic College
School
John Henry Newman Catholic College, formerly Archbishop Grimshaw School, is an English Catholic School located in Fordbridge, North Solihull.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fordbridge and Shard End.
Fordbridge
Suburb
Fordbridge is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull. It is part of the Chelmsley Wood estate, encompasses the area west of the River Cole and lies within the historic county of Warwickshire and the modern county of West Midlands, England.
Shard End
Village
Photo: Ann Causer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shard End is an area in east Birmingham, in the county of the West Midlands, England. It is part of a wider eponymous ward within the formal district of Hodge Hill.
Chelmsley Wood
Town
Photo: Carl Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chelmsley Wood, sometimes called just Chelmsley, is a town, ward, and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands. It is located near Birmingham Airport and the National Exhibition Centre.
Kingshurst
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Smith’s Wood, Solihull, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.49391° or 52° 29′ 38″ northLongitude
-1.75027° or 1° 45′ 1″ westPopulation
8,350Elevation
318 feet (97 metres)Open location code
9C4WF6VX+HVOpenStreetMap ID
node 262947840OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
13272688Wikidata ID
Q11739322
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Kingshurst” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Kingshurst”
- Bengali: “কিংস্টশাস্ট”
- Bulgarian: “Кингшурст”
- Cebuano: “Kingshurst”
- Chinese: “京斯霍斯特”
- Chinese: “金斯霍斯特”
- Dutch: “Kingshurst”
- French: “Kingshurst”
- German: “Kingshurst”
- Gujarati: “કિંગ્સહર્સ્ટ”
- Irish: “Kingshurst”
- Japanese: “キングシャースト”
- Kannada: “ಕಿಂಗ್ಸ್ಹರ್ಸ್ಟ್”
- Korean: “킹스허스트”
- Ladin: “Kingshurst”
- Lithuanian: “Kingshurstas”
- Polish: “Kingshurst”
- Portuguese: “Kingshurst”
- Russian: “Кингсхарст”
- Spanish: “Kingshurst”
- Swedish: “Kingshurst”
- Tamil: “கிங்ஷுரஸ்ட்”
- Telugu: “కింగ్స్ హర్స్ట్”
- Turkish: “Kingshurst”
- Urdu: “کینجشورست”
- “Kingshurst”
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