Kingstanding Substation
Kingstanding Substation is an electrical substation in Birmingham, England. Kingstanding Substation is situated nearby to Perry Barr Reservoir, as well as near the public building Kingstanding Neighbourhood Office.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Perry Barr Reservoir and King’s Standing Bowl Barrow.
Perry Barr Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Pigsonthewing, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Perry Barr Reservoir is a covered drinking water reservoir, in north Birmingham, England, operated by Severn Trent Water. Built for the then Birmingham Corporation Water Department, on the site of the former Perry Barr Farm, it is not, despite its name, in the modern Perry Barr area, but nearby Kingstanding, at grid reference SP083951.
King’s Standing Bowl Barrow
Archaeological site
Photo: Adrian Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
King's Standing Bowl Barrow or Kingstanding Mound, is a scheduled monument in the Kingstanding area of Birmingham. It comprises the buried and earthwork remains of a bowl barrow from the late Neolithic to the late Bronze Age, lying alongside the Icknield Street Roman road to the South of Sutton Park. King’s Standing Bowl Barrow is situated 1,100 feet northwest of Kingstanding Substation.
Kingstanding Library
Library
Photo: Martin Richard Phelan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kingstanding Library is situated 1,800 feet southwest of Kingstanding Substation.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kingstanding and New Oscott.
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.
New Oscott
Suburb
Photo: ChrisTheDude, Public domain.
New Oscott is an area of Birmingham, England. It was named after the Oscott area of Birmingham, when St. Mary's College, the Roman Catholic seminary, moved from that site to the new one.
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.
Kingstanding Substation
- Type: Electrical substation
- Category: industry
- Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.55538° or 52° 33′ 19″ northLongitude
-1.88016° or 1° 52′ 49″ westOpen location code
9C4WH449+5WOpenStreetMap ID
way 940722020
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Notable Places Nearby
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