Banners Gate Road Substation

Banners Gate Road Substation is an electrical substation in Birmingham, England. Banners Gate Road Substation is situated nearby to the church Saint Columba’s, as well as near the playground Banners Gate Golden Jubilee Play Area.

Photo: Andy Mabbett, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Saint Columba’s and Perry Barr Reservoir.

Saint Columba’s

Church

Photo: Andy Mabbett, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Saint Columba’s is a church.

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 2,900 feet west of Banners Gate Road Substation.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kingstanding and New Oscott.

Kingstanding

Suburb

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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.