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Sutton Park NNR is a large urban park located in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, West Midlands, England. The park is a National Nature Reserve; large parts are also a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Sutton Park is one of the largest urban parks in the United Kingdom. The park covers more than 2,200 acres (900 ha) according to one source. [1]
Erdington Abbey Church (grid reference) on Sutton Road, Erdington, Birmingham, England, is the more usual name of the grade II listed church of Saints Thomas and Edmund of Canterbury. It is the church of a Roman Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of Birmingham served by the Redemptorists.
A smaller green belt is located between Birmingham, Walsall and West Bromwich which includes Sutton Park in Sutton Coldfield. Sutton Park, an SSSI and national nature reserve, has an area of 9.001 square kilometres (3.475 sq mi) [5] making it one of the largest urban parks in Europe and the largest European park outside a capital city. [6] [7]
Boats on Handsworth Park pond. Birmingham has 591 parks and open spaces, [1] totalling over 3,500 hectares (14 sq mi), [2] more than any other equivalent sized European city. [3] The centrepieces of Birmingham's park system are the five Premier Parks. Fifteen parks have received the prestigious Green Flag Award. [4]
Sutton Coldfield, specifically the aforementioned Sutton Park, is a pivotal location in Hekla's Children by James Brogden. Sutton Park was the site of a portal between the physical world and the spirit world of Un. [124] The Sadness of The King George, a 2021 novel by Birmingham author Shaun Hand, is set in the town during summer 2005. [125]
Thomas Rickman: Council House: II* 1874–1879; 1884–1889 Yeoville Thomason: Birmingham Council House Extension (contains parts of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery) II* 1913 Ashley & Newton Birmingham and Midland Institute: II* 1889 Jethro Cossins, F. B. Peacock & Ernest Bewley: Birmingham Town Hall: I 1832; 1837; 1849–1851 Joseph Hansom ...
Our Lady & St Rose of Lima RC Primary School, ... St Thomas CE Academy, ... Sutton Park Primary, Sutton Coldfield; Tame Valley Academy, ...
The Roman Icknield Street in Sutton Park. In Roman times a large military fort and marching camp, Metchley Fort, existed on the site of the present Queen Elizabeth Hospital near what is now Edgbaston in southern Birmingham. The fort was constructed soon after the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43. In AD 70, the fort was abandoned only to be ...