Barr Beacon School

Barr Beacon School, formerly Barr Beacon Language College, is a mixed secondary school in Walsall, England, which acquired Academy status in 2011, when it readopted the school's original name: Barr Beacon School.

Type: School
Description: school in Walsall, UK
Also known as: “Barr Beacon Language College”
Address: Old Hall Lane, Birmingham, WS9 0RF

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Great Barr Hall and Barr Beacon.

Great Barr Hall

Manor estate

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Great Barr Hall is an 18th-century mansion situated in the Great Barr district of Pheasey, historically in Staffordshire and now part of Walsall, West Midlands, England. Great Barr Hall is situated 2,300 feet southwest of Barr Beacon School.

Barr Beacon

Peak

Photo: Mnnngchris, Public domain.

Barr Beacon is a hill on the edge of Walsall, West Midlands, England, very near the border with Birmingham. It gives its name to nearby Great Barr and to the local secondary school Barr Beacon School.

Great Barr Hall Upper Lake

Photo: Andy Mabbett, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Great Barr Hall Upper Lake is situated 2,900 feet southwest of Barr Beacon School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pheasey and Queslett.

Pheasey

Suburb

Photo: Adrian Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Pheasey is a residential area of Walsall Metropolitan Borough in the West Midlands of England, often considered to be part of Great Barr. The area was predominantly developed for housing, as the Pheasey Estate, in the 1930s, but work was not completed until after the Second World War. Barr Beacon, a hill, is a local landmark.

Queslett

Suburb

Queslett is an area of Great Barr, on the border of Birmingham, and Aldridge, England. The name has been in use since the 16th century. The first part, from "Queest", means a wood pigeon, the second comes from the Anglo-Saxon "slade", for a small valley.

Kingstanding

Suburb

Photo: Pigsonthewing, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Kingstanding is an area in north Birmingham, England. It gives its name to a ward in the Erdington council constituency. Kingstanding ward includes the areas; Perry Common, Witton Lakes.