Austin Village
Austin Village is a First World War housing estate of prefabs between Longbridge and Northfield, Birmingham. Herbert Austin, who created the Austin Motor Company at Longbridge in 1905, had to take on more workers during the First World War when his factory became involved in making tanks and aircraft.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Longbridge railway station and Turves Green Boys’ School.
Longbridge railway station
Railway station
Photo: Elliott Brown, CC BY 2.0.
Longbridge railway station serves the Longbridge, Rednal, Rubery and West Heath areas in the far south-west of Birmingham, England. It is on the Cross City Line. The station, and all trains calling there, are operated by West Midlands Trains.
Turves Green Boys’ School
School
Turves Green Boys' School is a secondary school in the West Heath area of Birmingham, England. It is approximately 80 years old. The school is an all-boys school which previously held Technology College and Humanities College status.
King Edward VI Northfield School for Girls
School
King Edward VI Northfield School for Girls is a secondary school located on Turves Green in the Northfield area of Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Turves Green and Longbridge.
Turves Green
Village
Turves Green is an area of Birmingham partly in West Heath and partly in Northfield. In addition the area of Longbridge borders Turves Green. A road with the simple name Turves Green runs through the area.
Longbridge
Suburb
Longbridge is an area in the south-west of Birmingham, England, located near the border with Worcestershire, historically being within this place.
West Heath
Suburb
West Heath is a residential area of Birmingham, England on the boundary with Worcestershire. Forming the larger part of the ward of Longbridge And West Heath it is situated between Kings Norton, Northfield, Longbridge and Cofton Hackett and lies on traditional heathland formed in the 13th century as part of the Kings Norton manorial lands, and was historically in Worcestershire.
Austin Village
- Type: Locality
- Description: housing estate in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
- Category: housing estate
- Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.40085° or 52° 24′ 3″ northLongitude
-1.97288° or 1° 58′ 22″ westOpen location code
9C4WC22G+8VOpenStreetMap ID
way 638657977OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q4823320
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Japanese—“Austin Village” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Austin Village”
- Igbo: “Obodo Austin”
- Irish: “Austin Village”
- Japanese: “オースチン・ビレッジ”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Austin Village”. Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.