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Edgbaston has hosted the T20 Finals Day more than any other cricket ground. Edgbaston is the main home ground for the Birmingham Phoenix in The Hundred competition from 2021. Edgbaston was the first English ground outside Lord's to host a major international one-day tournament final when it hosted the ICC Champions Trophy final in 2013.
Edgbaston Foundation Ground, formerly Mitchells and Butlers' Ground, is a cricket ground in Birmingham, Warwickshire. The ground, near the Mitchells & Butlers brewery , was owned by Mitchells & Butlers , which had its headquarters in Birmingham.
Edgbaston means "village of a man called Ecgbald", from the Old English personal name + tun "farm". The personal name Ecgbald means "bold sword" (literally "bold edge"). The name was recorded as a village known as Celboldistane in the Hundred of Coleshill in the 1086 Domesday Book [3] until at least 1139, wrongly suggesting that Old English stān "stone, rock" is the final element of the name.
Six of these grounds are or were located in the cities of Birmingham and Coventry, which no longer lie within the administrative county of Warwickshire due to changes in the county boundaries in England in 1974. [6] The county's debut home match in first-class cricket was played at Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham against Kent in 1894. [7]
Lloyd House, Birmingham: Snow Hill Queensway at Colmore Circus Queensway 1964 (Force headquarters and now a police station from 2016, since Steelhouse Lane police station closed in early 2017. Refurbished in 2015-16. Lloyd House, Birmingham More images
The Birmingham Botanical Gardens are a 15-acre (6-hectare) botanical garden situated in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. The gardens are located 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) south-west of Birmingham city centre at grid reference SP049854 .
It is owned by the University of Birmingham. The house was built as a family home for the Nettlefold family in 1904. The 7 acres (28,000 m 2 ) garden is a rare surviving example of an early 20th-century high status suburban "villa" garden, [ 1 ] inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement .
King Edward VI High School for Girls (KEHS) is an all-girls public school located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. It was founded in 1883 and occupies the same site as, and is twinned with the King Edward's School (KEHS; boys' school).