Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #17 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 8 sights
Distance 7.2 km
Ascend 76 m
Descend 138 m

Explore Birmingham in United Kingdom with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Birmingham

Sight 1: Saint James Handsworth

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Saint James Handsworth

St James' Church in Handsworth, Birmingham, England was erected as an Anglican church in 1838–1840 on land given by John Crockett of the nearby New Inns Hotel. The architect was Robert Ebbles of Wolverhampton, who specialised in Gothic Revival churches. A new chancel was added in 1878 and the building was rebuilt in 1895, to designs by J. A. Chatwin. The original chancel thus became the north chapel, the original nave became the north aisle, and the original western tower was redesignated as the north-west tower. The additions were a new chancel, a nave, and a south aisle. Chatwin's Decorated style, red-brick features contrasted with the Early English style stonework of the original building.

Wikipedia: St James' Church, Handsworth (EN)

1834 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 2: Church of God, Seventh Day

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St Peter's Church, Handsworth is a Grade II listed former Church of England parish church in Birmingham now used by a Church of God congregation.

Wikipedia: St Peter's Church, Handsworth (EN)

695 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 3: Handsworth Park

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Handsworth Park

Handsworth Park is a park in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, England. It lies 15 minutes by bus from the centre of Birmingham and comprises 63 acres of landscaped grass slopes, including a large boating lake and a smaller pond fed by the Farcroft and Grove Brooks, flower beds, mature trees and shrubs with a diversity of wildlife, adjoining St. Mary's Church, Handsworth to the north, containing the graves of the fathers of the Industrial Revolution, James Watt, Matthew Boulton and William Murdoch, and the founders of Aston Villa Football Club and the Victoria Jubilee Allotments site to the south opened on 12 June 2010. The completion of a £9.5 million restoration and rejuvenation of Handsworth Park was celebrated with a Grand Re-Opening Celebration led by Councillor Mike Sharpe, the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, speaking from the restored bandstand at 2.00pm on Saturday 8 July 2006, followed by a count down by a large enthusiastic crowd and the release of clouds of confetti; in the words of one observer "Great wedding! Now we must make the marriage a success."

Wikipedia: Handsworth Park (EN)

587 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 4: St Mary's Church

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St Mary's Church, Handsworth, also known as Handsworth Old Church, is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in Handsworth, Birmingham, England. Its ten-acre (4 hectare) grounds are contiguous with Handsworth Park. It lies just off the Birmingham Outer Circle, and south of a cutting housing the site of the former Handsworth Wood railway station. It is noteworthy as the resting place of famous progenitors of the industrial age, and has been described as the "Cathedral of the Industrial Revolution".

Wikipedia: St Mary's Church, Handsworth (EN)

264 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: The Endwood (closed)

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The Endwood is a disused grade II listed public house on Hamstead Road, in the Handsworth Wood district of Birmingham, England.

Wikipedia: The Endwood (EN)

1555 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 6: St. Andrew's Handsworth

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St. Andrew's HandsworthTony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK / CC BY 2.0

St Andrew's Church, Handsworth is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Handsworth, West Midlands.

Wikipedia: St Andrew's Church, Handsworth (EN)

881 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 7: The Anchorage

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The Anchorage is a Grade II* listed building in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, England.

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1420 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 8: Perry Hall Playing Fields

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Perry Hall Park or Perry Hall Country Park, and previously Perry Hall Playing Fields, is a park in Perry Barr, Birmingham, England, at grid reference SP059918. It was in Staffordshire until 1928. The site is protected by Fields in Trust through a legal "Deed of Dedication" safeguarding the future of the space as public recreation land for future generations to enjoy.

Wikipedia: Perry Hall Park (EN)

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