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Map of the Birmingham Metropolitan Area showing its built-up areas, morphological boundaries and catchment zones. The Birmingham Metropolitan Area is an urban agglomeration located in the West Midlands region of England with a population of around 4.3 million people, making it the second largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom. [3]
Bournville (/ ˈbɔːrnvɪl /) is a model village on the southwest side of Birmingham, England, founded by the Quaker Cadbury family for employees at its Cadbury's factory, [2] and designed to be a "garden" (or "model") village [3] where the sale of alcohol was forbidden. [4] Cadbury's is well known for chocolate products – including a dark ...
52°28′07″N 1°53′13″W / 52.4686°N 1.8870°W / 52.4686; -1.8870. Highgate is an area of Birmingham, England. Following the Big City Plan of February 2008, Highgate has become a district of Birmingham City Centre. The area is regarded as the site of the original Anglo-Saxon settlement which gave the city of Birmingham its name.
Bungalow. A bungalow house in Houston, Texas. A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is single- storey, [1] sometimes with a smaller upper storey set in the roof and windows that come out from the roof, [2] and may be surrounded by wide verandas. [1][3] The first house in England that was classified as a bungalow was built in 1869. [1]
Birmingham city's total population was 977,099 in 2001. The 2005 estimate for the population of the district of Birmingham was 1,001,200. This is the first time the population has broken the 1,000,000 barrier since 1996. [7] This was a population increase of 0.9% (8,800) from 2004, higher than the 0.6% for the United Kingdom as a whole and 0.7% ...
52°28′N 1°49′W / 52.467°N 1.817°W / 52.467; -1.817. Yardley is an area in east Birmingham, in the county of the West Midlands, England. It is also a council constituency, managed by its own district committee. Historically it lay within Worcestershire. [1] Yardley constituency shown within Birmingham.
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.
Areas of Birmingham, West Midlands. Areas of Birmingham, England, includes villages, towns, wards, districts and other sub-divisions. Paradoxically Sutton Coldfield is the most northerly constituency of Birmingham (Sutton means South town) while the most southerly constituency is Northfield. Sutton Coldfield is to the south of Tamworth and ...