Bartley Reservoir

Bartley Reservoir is a reservoir for drinking water in Birmingham, England, operated by Severn Trent Water. It covers 460,000 square metres. The reservoir is about 1.05 kilometres long, over 450 metres wide, and about 18 metres deep at the dam when full.

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Type: Reservoir
Description: reservoir in the West Midlands, England
Also known as: “Frankley Reservoir”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Frankley Reservoir and Woodgate Valley Country Park.

Frankley Reservoir

Reservoir

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Frankley Reservoir is a semi-circular reservoir for drinking water in Birmingham, England, operated by Severn Trent Water. Its construction was authorised by the Birmingham Corporation Water Act 1892 It was built by Birmingham Corporation Water Department to designs by Abram Kellett of Ealing in 1904.

Woodgate Valley Country Park

Park

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Woodgate Valley Country Park is a country park within the Bartley Green and Quinton districts of Birmingham. It is the third largest Birmingham Country Park after Sutton Park and Lickey Hills Country Park.

Northfield Library

Library

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Northfield Library is a Carnegie library in Northfield, Birmingham, England which in 1914 became the first open-access lending library in Birmingham.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Halesowen and Bartley Green.

Halesowen

Town

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Halesowen is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the county of the West Midlands, England. Historically an exclave of Shropshire and, from 1844, in Worcestershire, the town is around 7 miles from Birmingham city centre, and 6 miles from Dudley town centre.

Bartley Green

Village

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Bartley Green is a residential suburban area and electoral ward in Birmingham, England, 5 miles south west of the city centre. The ward is part of the Birmingham Edgbaston constituency and is represented in parliament by Labour Co-operative MP Preet Kaur Gill.