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, West Bromwich.Photo: Gordon Griffiths, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.
- 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 Smethwick Galton Bridge railway station.
The Hawthorns
Stadium
Photo: Mattd1991, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Hawthorns is an all-seater football stadium in West Bromwich, in the Black Country borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England, with a capacity of 27,087.
Smethwick Galton Bridge railway station
Railway station
Photo: Loganberry, Public domain.
Smethwick Galton Bridge is a split-level railway station in Smethwick, West Midlands, England. It is at a point where two railways' lines cross on two levels.
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Town hall
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, or Sandwell Council, is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Bromwich and Dudley.
West Bromwich
Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.
West Bromwich, commonly known as West Brom, is a market town in the borough of Sandwell, in the county of the West Midlands, England. Historically part of Staffordshire, it is 7 miles northwest of Birmingham.
Dudley
Photo: Phil Sangwell, CC BY 2.0.
Dudley is a town of almost 80,000 people in the West Midlands region of England. Its tourist attractions include Dudley Zoo and Castle, the 12th-century priory ruins, and the Black Country Living Museum.
Smethwick
Town
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Smethwick is an industrial town in the Sandwell district, in the county of the West Midlands, England. It lies 4 miles west of Birmingham city centre. Historically it was in Staffordshire and then Worcestershire before being placed into West Midlands county.
Sandwell
- Category: unparished area
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Sandwell from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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