Where is woodgate valley

Woodgate, Woodgate Valley. B32 - Grid reference SO Woodgate Valley Country Park. Image from BirminghamUK website in accordance with their copyright restrictions. Footpath from the Visitor Centre towards Bourn Brook.

Early evidence Near Stonehouse Road part of a bronze flat axe blade was found with a metal detector west of Holly Hurst. William Dargue Google Maps content is not displayed due to your current cookie settings. Click on the cookie policy functional to agree to the Google Maps cookie policy and view the content. You can find out more about this in the Google Maps privacy policy. Log in Log out Edit. Added for testing purposes. Advanced features of this website require that you enable JavaScript in your browser.

Thank you! Come along to see the animals and poultry and grab yourself a bargain during The farm house was located along Jiggins Lane roughly where the junction with Green Drive is today.

By the s the farm house had been demolished. Crossing Jiggins Lane and moving down the valley, the next piece of land belonged to Thomas Salmon. This was a woodland known as Cow Leasow Wood and it was cleared just before Further east along Stonehouse Lane was farmland owned by Richard Turley. Before much of this land formed part of Peascroft Wood which was located between Stonehouse Lane and Barnes Hill.

There are numerous traces of industry before , with evidence of tile kilns and gravel pits at various locations within the country park, as well as, of course, the Lapal tunnel, built in Though farming still dominated the landscape up to , already there had been the first signs of the industry which was to later transform parts of the area.

In the 3. Although the tunnel went underneath Woodgate Valley, there were still some traces on the surface including spoil heaps along the route of the canal, and an air hole — some of the spoil heaps are still visible.

Constructing such a long tunnel was clearly an over? After purchasing Stonehouse Farm in Isaac Flavell soon set up a brick and tile making business on the land and initially lived in the farm house, moving to the California Inn by He also owned a canal wharf in Gas Street. Top Yard, which included a large claypit and several kilns stood north of Stonehouse Lane on the site of the present day Hillcrest School. A second larger claypit located where the Fire Station now stands.

This was linked via tramway to a large brickworks building located north of the canal east of Barnes Hill. Middle Yard, which included a claypit connected by tramway, was located west of Jiggins Lane, just south of the Stonehouse Brook on the land previously owned by Richard Turley. The third brick and tile works was Bottom Yard — located east of Barnes Hill. To the north of the cottages was a pumping engine and an old coal shaft, which is said to have been sunk by Isaac Flavell in the s to provide coal for the Brick and Tile Works.

By the cottage was known as Coalpit House. The two cottages may have been combined by this point. Top Yard had ceased trading by 6. The farmhouse survived until the s, when it was demolished and replaced by the Stonehouse Pub. In Birmetals was built on part of the farmland of Broadhidley Farm — which would have dramatically altered the previous rural character of the area.

In association with with development, Clapgate Lane was re-routed and widened. Birmetals was a rolling mill for high tensile aluminium alloys to supply to aircraft, marine and other industries. The company closed in Many of these made use of the claypits which had been dug in association with the former brick and tile industry. The first of these — to the east of the playing fields was Clapgate Lane Landfill Site, owned by Birmetals and accessed via a trackway from Clapgate Lane.

The landfill site was active from until its closure in The area is now woodland. This landfill was the former claypit associated with the brick and tile works. This was capped before the s and is now the school playing fields. Directly to the east of the landfill site below, was the West Boulevard Landfill Site, in the second and larger of the two claypits. The landfill site was accessed via a trackway off Stonehouse Lane, just north of the junction with Barnes Hill.

It was operational between and and now forms part of the country park. The final landfill site was located south of Stonehouse Lane, just north of the Stonehouse Brook. The laying-out of the new golf course meant quite a few of the farm hedges were removed. The golf course existed here until , at which point the club relocated to its current home at Edgbaston Park. The farmhouse of the latter was demolished and this is now the location of junction 3 of the motorway.

The farmland to the west of the motorway remained as farmland, while that to the east was either developed, or became part of Woodgate Valley Country Park. This cut through Woodgate Valley and separated the section at Wentworth Way from the rest of the main valley.

During the 20th century, the continued expansion of Birmingham meant that more housing was needed. Large scale housing development of the area began in the s and occurred in stages until the mid s. In the Birmingham Corporation compulsorily purchased the land on which the golf course was laid out.

By work had begun on constructing housing on the northern part of the course down to the newly-constructed Quinton Road West. The farm houses were demolished. There was a similar story in the north as new roads including Highfield Lane and Simmons Drive were constructed.

By the s development also expanded west of Wood Lane and the eastern section of the farmland of Moat Farm made way for Pinewoods Drive. The farmhouse appears to have survived at least until the early s, but it has since been demolished. By the s Kitwell House had also been demolished and Kitwell Substation now stands there. Explore all travel options Average journey times Time on transportation:.

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