Handsworth Wood
Handsworth Wood is a suburb of Birmingham in the West Midlands County, England. Located within the metropolitan county of the West Midlands since 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, it was historically a part of the county of Staffordshire.Photo: Skarim Uk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Perry Hall Park and Perry Barr railway station.
Perry Hall Park
Park
Photo: Pigsonthewing, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Perry Hall Park or Perry Hall Country Park, and previously Perry Hall Playing Fields, is a park in Perry Barr, Birmingham, England, at grid reference SP059918.
Perry Barr railway station
Railway station
Photo: Andy Mabbett, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Perry Barr Railway Station is a railway station in Perry Barr, Birmingham, England, and is one of the oldest continuously operated railway station sites in the world, having first opened in 1837.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Birchfield and Perry Barr.
Birchfield
Suburb
Birchfield is located in and between Perry Barr, Aston, Handsworth Wood. Birchfield shares the B6 and B20 postcode with surrounding areas Handsworth Wood, Aston and Perry Barr.
Perry Barr
Suburb
Photo: Adrian Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Perry Barr is a suburban area in north Birmingham, in the county of the West Midlands, England. It is also the name of a council constituency, managed by its own district committee.
Hamstead
Suburb
Photo: William Ellis (engraver), Public domain.
Hamstead is an area straddling the border of Birmingham and Sandwell, England, between Handsworth Wood and Great Barr, and adjacent to the Sandwell Valley area of West Bromwich.
Handsworth Wood
- Type: Neighborhood with 27,700 residents
- Description: suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
- Categories: suburb and locality
- Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.51824° or 52° 31′ 6″ northLongitude
-1.91928° or 1° 55′ 9″ westPopulation
27,700Open location code
9C4WG39J+77OpenStreetMap ID
node 1777557676OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodWikidata ID
Q5647681
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Polish—“Handsworth Wood” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Handsworth Wood”
- Irish: “Handsworth Wood”
- Japanese: “ハンズワース・ウッド”
- Polish: “Handsworth Wood”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School and Lea Hall.
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