Oldbury Academy

Oldbury Academy is a mixed secondary school and former sixth form located in Oldbury, West Midlands, England. It opened as a merger of Warley High School and Langley High School on 1 January 1999.

Type: School
Description: school in Sandwell, UK
Also known as: “Oldbury College of Sport” and “Warley High School”
Address: Pound Road, Oldbury, B68 8NE

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Bleakhouse Library and River Tame.

Bleakhouse Library

Library

Photo: Elliott Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bleakhouse Library is situated 2,700 feet southeast of Oldbury Academy.

The River Tame is a river in the West Midlands of England, and one of the principal tributaries of the River Trent. The Tame is about 95 km long from the source at Oldbury to its confluence with the Trent near Alrewas, but the main river length of the entire catchment, i.e, the Tame and its main tributaries, is about 285 km.

Rowley Regis railway station

Railway station

Photo: Peter Whatley, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Rowley Regis railway station serves the towns of Blackheath and Rowley Regis in the county of West Midlands, England. It is located on the Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line. Rowley Regis railway station is situated 1 mile west of Oldbury Academy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cakemore and Langley Green.

Cakemore

Hamlet

Photo: Gordon Griffiths, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cakemore is a hamlet.

Langley Green

Village

Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Langley Green is an area of the town of Oldbury, in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the West Midlands County, England. The ward is simply called Langley.

Brandhall

Village

Brandhall is a suburb of Oldbury in the south of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, bordering Birmingham and Halesowen. The development of the area commenced during the 1930s with the construction of several hundred private houses along the Hagley Road and Wolverhampton Road, as well as several side roads leading off the main dual carriageways.