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Edgbaston has hosted the T20 Finals Day more than any other cricket ground. Edgbaston is the main home ground for the Birmingham Phoenix in The Hundred competition from 2021. Edgbaston was the first English ground outside Lord's to host a major international one-day tournament final when it hosted the ICC Champions Trophy final in 2013.
The Birmingham Botanical Gardens are a 15-acre (6-hectare) botanical garden situated in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. The gardens are located 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) south-west of Birmingham city centre at grid reference SP049854 .
Edgbaston means "village of a man called Ecgbald", from the Old English personal name + tun "farm". The personal name Ecgbald means "bold sword" (literally "bold edge"). The name was recorded as a village known as Celboldistane in the Hundred of Coleshill in the 1086 Domesday Book [3] until at least 1139, wrongly suggesting that Old English stān "stone, rock" is the final element of the name.
Edgbaston Foundation Ground, formerly Mitchells and Butlers' Ground, is a cricket ground in Birmingham, Warwickshire. The ground, near the Mitchells & Butlers brewery , was owned by Mitchells & Butlers , which had its headquarters in Birmingham.
John Thackray Bunce, editor of the Birmingham Daily Post; J. A. Chatwin, architect; William Haywood, (ashes) architect and urban designer, and first Secretary of The Birmingham Civic Society; John Pixell, poet, priest and composer. [Joseph Henry Shorthouse, 1834–1903, the author of "John Inglesant"]
St George's School was founded as a charitable trust [1] in 1999 as a result of the merger of two schools: Edgbaston Church of England College for Girls, founded in 1886 and Edgbaston College Preparatory School, founded at the end of the nineteenth century. The school is situated one mile from the centre of Birmingham and occupies a six-acre site.
The basic structure of the original gardens remains, but little of the details. The plots, divided by traditional hawthorne hedges, are in three main strips separated by access tracks. To the north is Birmingham Botanical Gardens; on the south-eastern edge there is a railway line (the Cross-City Line) and the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. [1]
Visitors to Winterbourne also enjoy access to Edgbaston Pool, a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The planting follows Arts and Crafts principles, with colour-themed borders influenced by Gertrude Jekyll. Winterbourne originally incorporated a small farm; the dairy house and coach house now serve as the gift shop and second-hand bookshop.