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This is a list of the constituent towns, villages and areas of Birmingham (both the city and the metropolitan borough) in England.. Between 1889 and 1995, the city boundaries were expanded to include many places which were once towns or villages in their own right, many of which still retain a distinctive character.
The tallest building in the Birmingham Metropolitan Area is Octagon, a 49-storey, 155-metre (509 ft) residential tower which forms part of the Paradise development in Birmingham city centre. Octagon surpassed Birmingham's tallest structure , the 140-metre (458 ft) BT Tower , and previous tallest residential building, the 132-metre (433 ft ...
Southwold is a seaside town and civil parish on the North Sea, in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.It lies at the mouth of the River Blyth in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 11 miles (18 km) south of Lowestoft, 29 miles (47 km) north-east of Ipswich and 97 miles (156 km) north-east of London, within the parliamentary constituency of ...
The West Midlands conurbation is the large conurbation in the West Midlands region of England. The area consists of two cities and numerous towns: to the east, the city of Birmingham, along with adjacent towns of Solihull and Sutton Coldfield; and to the west, the city of Wolverhampton and the area called the Black Country, containing the towns of Dudley, Walsall, West Bromwich, Oldbury ...
Colmore Row is a street in Birmingham City Centre in the centre of Birmingham, England, running from Victoria Square to just beyond Snow Hill station. It is traditionally the city's most prestigious business address. [2] Colmore Row and its environs were designated a conservation area in 1971, which was extended twice in 1985. Colmore Row ...
The first municipal building in the town was an ancient guildhall which was destroyed in the great fire which engulfed the town in April 1659. [2] [3] A second town hall was built shortly after the Battle of Solebay in June 1672. It was a single-storey rectangular building on Bartholomew Green with a cottage attached.
Submitted 06/12/2005 to Birmingham City Council for Martineau Galleries. Victor Skipp (1987). The History of Greater Birmingham – down to 1830. Yardley, Birmingham: V. H. T. Skipp. ISBN 0-9506998-0-2. Walter Showell; Thomas T. Harman. Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham – A History And Guide Arranged Alphabetically. New Street, Birmingham ...
Corporation Street is a main shopping street in Birmingham city centre, England. Though it has a distinct southern terminus – the junction of New Street and Stephenson Place , adjacent to the entrance of New Street station – the location of its northern terminus is debatable.