Hamstead
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: William Ellis (engraver), Public domain.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: area straddling the border of Birmingham and Sandwell, West Midlands, England
- Also known as: “Hamstead, West Midlands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hamstead railway station and Clifton Cinema.
Hamstead railway station
Railway station
Photo: Peter Whatley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hamstead railway station serves the Hamstead, Great Barr and Handsworth Wood areas of Birmingham, England. It is located at the junction of Rocky Lane and Old Walsall Road, Hamstead, at Birmingham's border with the borough of Sandwell.
Clifton Cinema
Retail building
Photo: Roy Hughes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clifton Cinema is a retail building.
Birmingham Crematorium
Garden
Photo: Pigsonthewing, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Birmingham Crematorium is a crematorium in the Perry Barr district of Birmingham, England, designed by Frank Osborne and opened in 1903. A columbarium was added in 1928. The crematorium is now owned and operated by Dignity plc.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tower Hill and Perry Beeches.
Tower Hill
Neighborhood
Tower Hill is an area of Great Barr, Birmingham, England. It is situated on the western side of the main A34 road that links Birmingham with Walsall, and straddles the Tame Valley Canal.
Perry Beeches
Suburb
Perry Beeches is an area of Great Barr, Birmingham, England, within the parliamentary constituency of Birmingham Perry Barr. It was formerly part of the estate of Perry Hall, and from 1894 until 1928 came under the auspices of Perry Barr Urban District, in Staffordshire.
Handsworth Wood
Neighborhood
Photo: Skarim Uk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Hamstead
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.5318° or 52° 31′ 55″ northLongitude
-1.92485° or 1° 55′ 30″ westOpen location code
9C4WG3JG+P3OpenStreetMap ID
node 4666750081OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q5646419
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Welsh—“Hamstead” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “哈姆斯特德”
- Irish: “Hamstead, Midlands Thiar”
- Irish: “Hamstead”
- Portuguese: “Hamstead”
- Welsh: “Hamstead”
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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 Wikipedia page “Hamstead”. Photo: William Ellis (engraver), Public domain.