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Meriden was a local distribution point in the 16th-century cattle-driving trade, with the pool at the centre of the old village used to water the animals. Cattle would rest in Meriden before continuing either to the cattle pens at the top of Meriden Hill for the Coventry cattle market, or towards the cattle market then held in Berkswell. [3]
The coat of arms of Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council. Solihull probably derived its name from a 'miry or muddy' or soily hill. The parish church was built on a hill of stiff red marl, which turned to sticky mud in wet weather. Solihull was an ancient parish, covering the town itself and adjoining rural areas, including Shirley. [3]
Civil parishes in their modern sense date from the Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), which abolished vestries; established elected parish councils in all rural parishes with more than 300 electors; grouped rural parishes into rural districts; and aligned parish boundaries with county and borough boundaries. [7]
Hampton in Arden is a village and civil parish located in the Forest of Arden in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, in the West Midlands of England. Hampton in Arden was part of Warwickshire until the 1974 boundary changes. It lies within the Meriden Gap which is an area of countryside between Solihull and Coventry.
Meriden and Solihull East is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Further to the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested in the 2024 general election. [2] It is represented by Conservative Party member Saqib Bhatti, who was MP for the predecessor seat of Meriden from 2019 to 2024.
St Michael's Church, Solihull In 2012, St Alphege Church celebrated the millennium of the martyrdom of St Alphege in 1012. In 2020, along with churches of other denominations in central Solihull, the Parish celebrated eight hundred years since the foundation of St Alphege Church, and so of Christianity in Solihull.
Renewal Christian Centre is a large family church established and primarily based in Solihull, England. The church belongs to the Free Methodist Church of Great Britain . The congregation was founded in 1972 and has grown to over 800 weekly attendees.
The church is of 13th century style but was heavily restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1849. [1] The church is a Grade I listed building. [2] [3]It is thought that the church was built by the Knights Templar and is the Mother Church of the Templars and the Knight Hospitallers.