Sandwell

Sandwell is a metropolitan borough that spans a densely populated part of the West Midlands, including Bearwood, Blackheath, Cradley Heath, Oldbury, Rowley Regis, Smethwick, Tipton, Tividale, Wednesbury, .
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  • Type: metropolitan borough with 323,000 residents
  • Description: metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England
  • Also known as: “Sandwell (unparished area)” and “Sandwell Metropolitan Borough”

Places of Interest

Highlights include The Hawthorns and Church of England.

Stadium
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is an all-seater football in , in the Black Country borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England, with a capacity of 27,087.

Church
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The is the established Christian church in and the Crown Dependencies. It was the initial church of the Anglican tradition. The church traces its history to the Christian hierarchy recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain by the 3rd century and to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kent led by Augustine of Canterbury.

Railway station
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Smethwick Galton Bridge is a split-level railway station in , , England. It is at a point where two railways' lines cross on two levels.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Bromwich and Dudley.

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, commonly known as West Brom, is a market town in the borough of Sandwell, in the county of the , England. Historically part of , it is around 2 miles west of , what stands between them is the Sandwell Valley.

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is a town of almost 80,000 people in the region of . Its tourist attractions include Zoo and Castle, the 12th-century priory ruins, and the Black Country Living Museum.

Town
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is an industrial town in the Sandwell district, in the county of the , England. It lies 4 miles west of Birmingham city centre. Historically it was in and then before being placed into West Midlands county.

Sandwell

Latitude
52.5° or 52° 30′ north
Longitude
-2° or 2° west
Population
323,000
Elevation
522 feet (159 metres)
Abbreviation
“SAW”
Open location code
9C4WG222+22
Geo­Names ID
3333191
Wiki­data ID
Q285964
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Satellite Map

Discover Sandwell from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Sandwell” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ساندويل”
  • Armenian: “Սենդուել”
  • Basque: “Sandwell”
  • Belarusian: “бора Сандуэл”
  • Belarusian: “Сандуэл”
  • Breton: “Sandwell”
  • Cebuano: “Sandwell”
  • Chinese: “Sandwell”
  • Chinese: “山威”
  • Chinese: “山德威尔”
  • Chinese: “山德維爾”
  • Chinese: “山德维尔”
  • Chinese: “桑德威尔”
  • Chinese: “桑德韋爾”
  • Chinese: “桑德韦尔”
  • Chinese: “砂井”
  • Dutch: “Sandwell”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ساندويل”
  • Esperanto: “Sandwell”
  • Finnish: “Sandwell”
  • French: “Sandwell”
  • German: “Sandwell”
  • Irish: “Sandwell”
  • Italian: “Sandwell”
  • Japanese: “サンドウェル”
  • Korean: “샌드웰”
  • Latvian: “Sendvela”
  • Lithuanian: “Sandvelas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sandwell”
  • Northern Frisian: “Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandwell”
  • Norwegian: “Sandwell”
  • Persian: “ساندول”
  • Persian: “کلان‌شهر مستقل ساندول”
  • Polish: “Sandwell”
  • Romanian: “Sandwell”
  • Russian: “Сандуэлл”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sandwell”
  • Slovenian: “Sandwell”
  • Swedish: “Sandwell”
  • Ukrainian: “Сандвелл”
  • Ukrainian: “Сендвелл”
  • Urdu: “سینڈویل”
  • Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Fetropolitan Sandwell”
  • Yue Chinese: “山威”
  • “Sandwell”

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