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Kingshurst Hall was a large country manor house surrounded by a moat, built around 1390 by Sir William Montfort, son of Sir Baldwin Montfort. Kingshurst took on an independent existence from Coleshill with the arrival of the Mountfords.
Sir Simon Montford (died c. 30 January 1495 [1]) was an English Lord of several manors who was executed for treason. [2]Simon Montford was the son and heir of Sir Baldwin Montfort, Knt, of Coleshill Manor, Warwickshire (1410 – c. 1458) by his spouse Joan, daughter of Sir Richard Vernon, Speaker of the House of Commons.
Coleshill Manor then passed to this branch of Sir Simon de Montford who moated the manor houses at Coleshill and Kingshurst. King Henry VII granted Coleshill Manor and its lands to Simon Digby in 1496 following the execution and forfeiture of Sir Simon de Montford for supporting the rebellion of Perkin Warbeck. The (Wingfield-Digby) family ...
[2] [3] Burtons Farm once stood on the junction of Burtons Way and Windward Way and was part of the estates of Coleshill Manor and Kingshurst Hall in Warwickshire. Bosworth Wood Farm was located on Auckland Drive. Smith's Wood Boys Football Club, was established in 1970.
Much of the large residential population in the north of the borough centres on the communities of Castle Bromwich, Kingshurst, Marston Green and Smith's Wood as well as the towns of Chelmsley Wood and Fordbridge. [2] In the south are the towns of Shirley and Solihull, as well as the large villages of Knowle, Dorridge, Meriden and Balsall Common.
Yorks Wood is a Local Nature Reserve in Kingshurst, Solihull, England. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is an 11 hectares (27 acres) ancient wood of predominantly oak trees. The River Cole is located south of the wood and located within Kingfisher Country Park .
Babbs Mill Lake, sometimes called Kingshurst Lake, is a man-made lake in the Kingfisher Country Park in Kingshurst, Solihull in England. The lake was created as a balancing feature in times of flooding from the nearby River Cole .
During World War I, much of the woodland between Shard End and Kingshurst had been cut down to help with the war effort. The Birmingham and District Association of Boy Scouts were able to buy a patch of land at a bargain price and set up a permanent camp there. This land was halfway between Kingshurst and Shard End. It was called Yorkswood and ...