King Edward VI Handsworth Wood Girls’ Academy

King Edward VI Handsworth Wood Girls' Academy is a secondary school and sixth form located in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, England. The building that the school currently occupies used to be known as Handsworth Wood Boys' School but it went through a change over ten years ago.

Type: School
Description: school in Birmingham, UK
Also known as: “King Edward VI Handsworth Wood Girls‘ Academy”
Address: Church Lane, Birmingham, B20 2HL

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Andrew’s Church and Handsworth Park.

St Andrew’s Church

Church

Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.

St Andrew's Church, Handsworth is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Handsworth, West Midlands. St Andrew’s Church is situated 1,800 feet west of King Edward VI Handsworth Wood Girls’ Academy.

Handsworth Park

Park

Photo: West Midlands Police, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Handsworth Park is a park in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, England. It lies 15 minutes by bus from the centre of Birmingham and comprises 63 acres of landscaped grass slopes, including a large boating lake and a smaller pond fed by the Farcroft and Grove Brooks, flower beds, mature trees and shrubs with a diversity of wildlife, adjoining St. Handsworth Park is situated 2,100 feet south of King Edward VI Handsworth Wood Girls’ Academy.

St Mary’s Church

Church

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

St Mary's Church, Handsworth, also known as Handsworth Old Church, is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in Handsworth, Birmingham, England. Its ten-acre grounds are contiguous with Handsworth Park. St Mary’s Church is situated 2,500 feet southeast of King Edward VI Handsworth Wood Girls’ Academy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Handsworth Wood and Birchfield.

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.

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.