Barrow Hill Local Nature Reserve
Barrow Hill Local Nature Reserve is a local nature reserve situated in Pensnett in the county of West Midlands, England. Its most distinctive feature, Barrow Hill, is the eroded remnant of a high level igneous intrusion that was formed 315 million years ago during the Carboniferous period.Photo: Gordon Griffiths, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: park in Pensnett, Dudley, West Midlands, England
- Also known as: “Barrow Hill Local Nature Reserve Black Country Geosite”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Russells Hall Hospital and Fens Pools.
Russells Hall Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Gordon Griffiths, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Russells Hall Hospital is an NHS general hospital located in Dudley, West Midlands, England, managed by the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital is south-west of the town centre on the A4101 road, which connects to the Kingswinford area of the borough.
Fens Pools
Lake
Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fens Pools is a 37.6 hectares biological site of Special Scientific Interest in the West Midlands. The site was notified in 1989. under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and is currently managed by the Country Trust.
Holbeche House
Historic house
Photo: Gordon Griffiths, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Holbeche House is a mansion located approximately 1 mile north of Kingswinford, now in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley but historically in Staffordshire. Some members of the Gunpowder Plot were either killed or captured at Holbeche House in 1605.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stourbridge and Tipton.
Stourbridge
Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stourbridge is a small, historic town in the borough of Dudley in the West Midlands. It is located on the south-western edge of the conurbation of industrial towns known as the Black Country.
Tipton
Town
Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.
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.
Kingswinford
Village
Photo: Roger Kidd, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kingswinford is a town of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the English West Midlands, situated 5 miles west-southwest of central Dudley, bordering the South Staffordshire district.
Barrow Hill Local Nature Reserve
- Categories: park and recreation area
- Location: Dudley, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.507° or 52° 30′ 25″ northLongitude
-2.1256° or 2° 7′ 32″ westOperator
Dudley MBCOpen location code
9C4VGV4F+RPOpenStreetMap ID
way 386745410OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveWikidata ID
Q24993464
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