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Christ Church can be seen in the centre of this print of 1886 between the Town Hall and the Council House. Christ Church (also known as the Free Church or Christchurch) [1] [3] was a large parish church in Birmingham, England, in the Diocese of Worcester within the Church of England.
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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.
Birmingham city centre, also known as Central Birmingham or town, is the central business district of Birmingham, England. The area was historically in Warwickshire . Following the removal of the Inner Ring Road , the city centre is now defined as being the area within the Middleway ring road. [ 1 ]
Victoria Square is a pedestrianised public square in Birmingham, England. It is home to both the Town Hall and the Council House, and directly adjacent to Chamberlain Square. It is named in honour of Queen Victoria. The square is often considered to be the centre of Birmingham, and is the point from where local road sign distances are measured.
The Middleway, officially designated as the A4540 and signposted as ring road, is an orbital road in Birmingham, England.Serving as the sole ring road of the city, it runs around Birmingham city centre at a distance of approximately 1 mile (1.6 km).
The population inside Birmingham's city limits has fallen over the past few decades, due in large part to "white flight" from the city of Birmingham proper to surrounding suburbs. The city's formerly most populous ethnic group, non-Hispanic white, [ 20 ] has declined from 57.4 percent in 1970 to 21.1 percent in 2010. [ 21 ]
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 ...