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, B68 8NE

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include River Tame and Rowley Regis railway station.

River Tame

Spring

Photo: Sjwells53, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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 the 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.

Langley Green railway station

Railway station

Photo: Michael Westley, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Langley Green railway station serves the Langley Green area of the town of Oldbury in Sandwell, in the West Midlands, England. It is located on the Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line. Langley Green railway station is situated 1 mile north of Oldbury Academy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Langley Green and Brandhall.

Langley Green

Village

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Langley Green is an area of the town of Oldbury, on the B4169 road, in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the English county of West Midlands. The appropriate ward of Sandwell 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.

Warley

Town

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Warley is a residential area of Oldbury in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands of the United Kingdom. Historically in both Worcestershire and Shropshire, the name has been used for both a civil parish and a county borough/civil parish.