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Delve into Edgbaston
The district Edgbaston of Birmingham in Birmingham (England) is a subburb in United Kingdom about 101 mi north-west of London, the country's capital town.
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While being here, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Oldbury, Tidbury Green, Dickens Heath, Cheswick Green and Walsall. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 8°C / 46 °F
Morning Temperature | 6°C / 42 °F |
Evening Temperature | 8°C / 46 °F |
Night Temperature | 5°C / 41 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 9% |
Air Humidity | 88% |
Air Pressure | 983 hPa |
Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 12 km/h (7 mph) from North |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
General Conditions | Moderate rain |
Saturday, 30th of March 2024
11°C (53 °F)
7°C (44 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, scattered clouds.
Sunday, 31st of March 2024
12°C (53 °F)
8°C (46 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Monday, 1st of April 2024
7°C (44 °F)
7°C (44 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Hyatt Regency Birmingham
POSTBOX BY BRIDGESTREET
AC Hotel Birmingham
Hallmark Birmingham Strathallan
Spires Serviced Apartments
Crowne Plaza BIRMINGHAM CITY CENTRE
PARK REGIS BIRMINGHAM
SACO Birmingham
Novotel Birmingham Centre
Hilton Garden Inn Birmingham Brindleyplace
Videos from this area
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Trip to the Rag Market, Birmingham City Centre, England, UK
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Black Country Ring
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First Day Opening of the New Birmingham Central Library, Birminham City, England.
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Elgar Court & Maple Bank Summer Ball 2012
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BSc Biochemistry - 2+2 programme - Fudan University and University of Birmingham
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Bellringing at St. Philip's Anglican Cathedral, Birmingham
Some Grandsire Cinques rung on the fine ring of 12 bells of St. Phillip's Cathedral, Birmingham, UK. These bells were originally a ring of 10, cast in 1937 by Gillett and Johnson, and were...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a British red brick university located in the city of Birmingham, United Kingdom. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School (1825) and Mason Science College (1875). Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus university status. It is a member of the Russell Group of research universities and a founding member of Universitas 21.
Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower
The Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower is a campanile located in Chancellor's court at the University of Birmingham in the West Midlands of England. It is the tallest free-standing clock tower in the world, although its actual height is the subject of some confusion. The university lists it as both 110 metres and 325 feet tall, whereas other sources state that it is 100 metres tall.
Barber Institute of Fine Arts
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts is an art gallery and concert hall in Birmingham, England. It is situated in purpose-built premises on the campus of the University of Birmingham. The Grade II listed Art Deco building was designed by Robert Atkinson in the 1930s and opened in 1939 by Queen Mary.
Capital Birmingham
Capital Birmingham is an local radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the nine-station Capital radio network of contemporary music stations. The station broadcasts from studios on Broad Street in Birmingham City Centre shared with Heart West Midlands and The Arrow - Rock. Capital FM Birmingham's transmitter is located at Metropolitan House on the A456. It is also available on DAB, through the MXR West Midlands multiplex.
Heart West Midlands
Heart West Midlands is a radio station forming part of the Heart Network, with a regional license to broadcast to the West Midlands. It is aimed primarily at people aged 25 – 44, which makes the station just about enter the Hot AC format.
Five Ways, Birmingham
Five Ways is an area of Birmingham, England. It takes its name from a major road junction, now a busy roundabout (with pedestrian subways through a traffic island) to the south-west of the city centre which lies at the outward end of Broad Street, where the Birmingham Middle ring road crosses the start of the A456.
Elmhurst School for Dance
Elmhurst School for Dance is a professional Classical Ballet school in the United Kingdom and is the official associate school of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. It takes students aged 11–19 years who intend to pursue a career in professional classical ballet.
Five Ways Tower
Five Ways Tower is a 23 story commercial building on a 2.1-acre prime site located in the Birmingham City Centre by the corner of Frederick Road and Islington Road, near to the Five Ways roundabout and close to Five Ways Station, at the gateway to the Edgbaston area of Birmingham 15, England. The building was completed in 1979.
Metropolitan House
Metropolitan House (also known as 1 Hagley Road after its address) is a commercial building in Birmingham, England. It is situated on the A456 Hagley Road at Five Ways. Built to a design by John Madin, it is home to many businesses including employment agencies, financial organisations and a major public transport operator.
Edgbaston House
Edgbaston House is a highrise commercial building in on Duchess Place, Birmingham. It was built by Laing Development Co Ltd. and the consulting engineers were Ove Arup. Construction cost £1,720,000. It was the result of work by Calthorpe Estates to attract businesses to the Hagley Road and Five Ways by promoting the construction of office blocks there. It is part of the Duchess Place estate which consists of office blocks totalling 200,000 sq ft .
Edgbaston Hall
Edgbaston Hall is a country house (albeit now in the middle of the city) in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England. Early in the Civil War, Edgbaston Hall, along with Hawkesley House, now the site of a council housing estate in Longbridge, was a stronghold of Colonel John Fox, the so-called "Jovial Tinker".
Birmingham Business School
Birmingham Business School is the business school of the University of Birmingham in England, located in University House, a former hall of residence in Edgbaston which has been extensively refurbished and expanded to provide new teaching and research facilities. Originally established as the School of Commerce in 1902, it is the oldest Business School in England.
Birmingham Oratory
Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, located in the Birmingham suburb of Edgbaston, England. It was founded in 1849 by the Blessed John Henry Newman, C.O.. It was the first house of that congregation in England. Part of the complex of the Oratory is the Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception, commonly referred to as the Oratory Church. It now also serves as the national shrine to Newman.
Queen's College, Edgbaston
Queen's College, Somerset Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, is an ecumenical theological college which, with the West Midlands Ministerial Training Course, forms the Centre for Ministerial Formation of the Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education. It serves the Church of England, the Methodist Church and the United Reformed Church, and its courses thus have a strong ecumenical emphasis.
AEGON Classic
The AEGON Classic, formerly known as the DFS Classic, is an International series tennis tournament on the WTA Tour held at the Edgbaston Priory Club in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Held at this location since 1982, the tournament is played on outdoor grass courts. It is seen as a major warm up tournament for Wimbledon and a sister tournament to the men's Queen's Club Championships.
Somerset Road railway station
Somerset Road railway station was a railway station in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, on the Midland Railway's Birmingham West Suburban Railway. The station had two platforms and was located in a cutting. It was opened in 1876 and closed in 1930 due to lack of patronage. There are virtually no remains of the station, the only one being a bricked up entrance on the Somerset Road bridge over the present Cross-City Line, between the University railway station and Five Ways railway station.
University House, University of Birmingham
Originally a hall of residence at the University of Birmingham, University House became the home for the university's business school in 2004 after having been extensively refurbished and extended to provide state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities. It is located in beautiful grounds in the conservation area of Edgbaston, Birmingham. The name 'University House' was originally given to a building on Hagley Road in 1908.
Bourn Brook, Cambridgeshire
Bourn Brook is a minor tributary of the River Cam in Cambridgeshire, England. It has its source just to the east of the village of Eltisley, 10 miles west of Cambridge, where the hills rise to around 60 metres above sea level. Minor tributaries known as the Eastern Brook, Hay Dean, Crow Dean and Gascote Dean merge just to the west of Caxton before it flows through Caxton, crossing the Roman road Ermine Street at its junction with the Bourn and Gransden roads.
Edgbaston tram stop
Edgbaston is a proposed stop for the planned extension of Line 1 of the Midland Metro into Birmingham City Centre in the United Kingdom. Network West Midlands have issued a plan of route showing this as their stop on Hagley Road, a major thoroughfare of the city, in the constituency of Edgbaston, located outside of the city centre.
Edgbaston Pool
Edgbaston Pool is a Site of Special Scientific Interest located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. It is one of 23 SSSI's in the West Midlands. The site has two distinct units (areas) within it. The first is water-related and contains the 7 hectares lake and the input channel of the Chad Brook as well as some land that is either marsh or lake depending on the season. The second, the smaller section is woodland. In total the site measures 15.93 hectares .
St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston
St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston, also known as Edgbaston Old Church, is a parish church in the Church of England in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
St George's Church, Edgbaston
St. George's Church, Edgbaston is a parish church in the Church of England in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Society
Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Society, informally known as The Archery and based in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England, is the oldest lawn tennis club in the world. The club was founded as an archery club called the Edgbaston Archery Society in 1860 following a meeting at the Birmingham and Midland Institute, and the club moved to its current premises next to Birmingham Botanical Gardens in 1867.
Centre for International Education and Research
The Centre for International Education and Research (CIER) evolved in the 1950s, at the University of Birmingham UK, in the context of the involvement of British academics in the new international educational role of the United Nations.
Edgbaston Priory Club
The Edgbaston Priory Club is a tennis complex in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The complex is the host of the annual WTA Tour stop, the AEGON Classic. The stadium court has a capacity of 1,500 people.