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The earliest known settlement in the Shirley area was at Berry Mound Camp at what is now Solihull Lodge, in the west of Shirley. This was the site of an Iron Age Hill Fort, which may have been the scene of a battle between the forces of King Alfred and besieged Danes [1] (and with archaeological evidence which would indicate defense of the site during this period).
Palmers Rough is a local nature reserve and park located in Shirley, Solihull. [2] It covers an area of approximately 7.3 hectares (18 acres) and consists of two separate woodland blocks; Palmers Coppice to the east, and Squires Coppice to the west.
Bills Wood is a local nature reserve and park located in Shirley, Solihull. [2] It covers an area of approximately 6.6 hectares (16 acres) and consists of a square parcel of woodland surrounded by residential suburbs. To the east the wood is bounded by the school playing fields of Light Hall School. A wide range of plants and animals makes the ...
Monkspath is a large residential community and light-industrial area of Solihull, West Midlands, England, southeast of the town's Shirley district (and served by Junction 4 of the M42 motorway). Monkspath is in the Blythe ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull. Monkspath Hall Road
Solihull Lodge is a residential area of Solihull (to the southwest of Shirley), near its border with Birmingham (Yardley Wood and Warstock areas). The area developed originally from a number of farms which were located near to the Mill Pond on Priory Road.
Wooden bridge over the Cole at Shirley, drawn in the 19th century by Samuel Rostill Lines.. The River Cole is a 25-mile-long (40-kilometre) river in the English Midlands.It rises on the lower slopes of Forhill, one of the south-western ramparts of the Birmingham Plateau, at Red Hill and flows south before flowing largely north-east across the plateau to enter the River Blythe below Coleshill ...
Boundaries of Solihull West and Shirley — constituency of UK Parliament — since 2024: Source No source specified. Please edit this file description and provide a source. Date 24 May 2024 Author Rcsprinter123. Permission (Reusing this file) See below.
Blythe Valley Park is a district of the town of Solihull in the West Midlands conurbation. It is adjacent to Junction 4 of the M42 motorway, on the A34 Stratford Road between the Monkspath district of Solihull, and the villages of Hockley Heath and Illshaw Heath. The district comprises a business park, mini village and nature reserve.