Meriden
Meriden is a small historic village in the West Midlands, England. It is situated about half way between Birmingham and Coventry. It is said to be the centre of England, but the name of this village actually means "Merry Vale".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 1,750 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in West Midlands, UK
- Also known as: “Meriden, Solihull” and “Meriden, West Midlands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Laurence Church and Packington Hall.
St Laurence Church
Church
Photo: Necrothesp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Meriden is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England. Historically, it is part of Warwickshire and lies between the cities of Birmingham and Coventry.
Packington Hall
Manor estate
Photo: Amanda Slater, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Packington Hall is a 17th-century mansion situated at Great Packington, near Meriden in Warwickshire, England and is the seat of the Earl of Aylesford. It is a Grade II listed building.
Berkswell Hall
Manor estate
Photo: David Stowell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Berkswell Hall is a 19th-century country house at Berkswell, formerly Warwickshire now West Midlands, now converted into residential apartments. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Berkswell and Hampton in Arden.
Berkswell
Village
Photo: Snowmanradio, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Berkswell is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, county of West Midlands, England. Historically in Warwickshire, Berkswell is situated in the rural east of the borough, approximately 2 miles west of the western city boundary of Coventry, at Eastern Green.
Hampton in Arden
Village
Photo: Argrogan, Public domain.
Hampton in Arden is a village and civil parish located in the Forest of Arden in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, in the West Midlands of England. Hampton in Arden is situated 2½ miles west of Meriden.
Meriden
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Solihull, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.4373° or 52° 26′ 14″ northLongitude
-1.6471° or 1° 38′ 50″ westPopulation
1,750Elevation
397 feet (121 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB MRQOpen location code
9C4WC9P3+W5OpenStreetMap ID
node 95066757OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Meriden” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Meriden”
- Bengali: “মেরিডেন”
- Catalan: “Meriden”
- Cebuano: “Meriden (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Meriden”
- Chinese: “Meriden”
- Chinese: “梅里登”
- Dutch: “Meriden”
- French: “Meriden”
- German: “Meriden”
- Gujarati: “મેરીડેન”
- Irish: “Meriden”
- Italian: “Meriden”
- Japanese: “メリデン”
- Kannada: “ಮೆರಿಡೆನ್”
- Korean: “메리던”
- Ladin: “Meriden”
- Lithuanian: “Meridenas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Meriden”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Meriden”
- Norwegian: “Meriden”
- Persian: “مریدن، میدلندز غربی”
- Polish: “Meriden”
- Portuguese: “Meriden”
- Russian: “Мэриден”
- Scots: “Meriden, Wast Midlands”
- Scots: “Meriden”
- Spanish: “Meriden”
- Swedish: “Meriden, West Midlands”
- Swedish: “Meriden”
- Tamil: “மேரிடென்”
- Telugu: “మెరెడెన్”
- Urdu: “میریدین”
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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 “Meriden”. Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.