Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy

Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy is an academy for secondary aged pupils located in Tividale, Sandwell, in the West Midlands of England. The school was built in 1956 as The Tividale School to serve the expanding Tividale area which by this date had expanded beyond Tipton's borders into Dudley.

Type: School
Description: school in Sandwell, UK
Address: Lower City Road, B69 2HE

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Gower Branch Canal and Shri Venkateswara Temple.

Gower Branch Canal

Bridge

The Gower Branch Canal is a half-mile canal at Tividale in England, linking Albion Junction on the Birmingham Level of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, and Brades Hall Junction on the BCN's older Wolverhampton level, via three locks, the Brades Locks, at the Southern, Brades Hall end. Gower Branch Canal is situated 1,800 feet east of Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy.

Shri Venkateswara Temple

Hindu temple

The Shri Venkateswara Temple is a Hindu temple located on a 30-acre site in Tividale, a suburb of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. It is dedicated in the Vaishnava tradition to Venkateswara, a form of the Hindu god Vishnu. Shri Venkateswara Temple is situated 2,700 feet northeast of Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy.

Holy Cross Community Church

Church

Photo: Geoff Pick, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Holy Cross Community Church is situated 2,100 feet south of Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tividale and Oakham.

Tividale

Village

Tividale is a district of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands. It straddles the borders of the towns of Dudley, Tipton, Oldbury.

Oakham

Village

Oakham is an area of Dudley, England, situated on the peak of Turners Hill, the highest point in the West Midlands county. All of the area was historically in Dudley but in 1966 approximately half of it, including the Tividale Hall and Grace Mary housing estates, was incorporated into the county borough of Warley, which in turn merged with West Bromwich in 1974 to form Sandwell.