Quinton
District of Halesowen
in Dudley of England, United Kingdom
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Birmingham International Airport (13 mi) - Coventry Airport (25 mi)
- Gloucestershire Airport (39 mi)
- East Midlands Airport (40 mi)
- RAF Brize Norton (52 mi)
- RAF Fairford (54 mi)
- Manchester Woodford Airport (62 mi)
- Manchester Airport (63 mi)
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal (Unesco heritage, 51 mi)
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (Unesco heritage, 59 mi)
- Blenheim Palace (Unesco heritage, 73 mi)
- City of Bath (Unesco heritage, 76 mi)
- Derwent Valley Mills (Unesco heritage, 76 mi)
- Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (Unesco heritage, 79 mi)
- Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd (Unesco heritage, 85 mi)
- Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey (Unesco heritage, 133 mi)
- Fulford Heath Golf Club (Golf course, 7 mi)
- Kings Norton Golf Club (Golf course, 8 mi)
- Kidderminster Golf Club (Golf course, 9 mi)
- Calderfields Golf Club (Golf course, 11 mi)
- Bewdley Pines (Golf course, 11 mi)
- Burlish Park Golf Course (Golf course, 11 mi)
- Copt Heath Golf Club (Golf course, 12 mi)
- Little Lakes Golf Club (Golf course, 12 mi)
- The Belfry (Golf course, 15 mi)
- Forest Of Arden-Aylesford Golf Club (Golf course, 17 mi)
- Dudley Zoo (zoo, (5 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 52.449 and -2.049 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 52° 26' 54" and W -2° 2' 57"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Pound - GBP
- Spoken languages:
- English, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic
- Local electricity:
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- Local Time: 03:54 PM (Friday)
- Timezone: Europe/London
- UTC/GMT offset: 0 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 8:31 am and 5:14 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- -45.817 and 170.717 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Otakou - References
- This place on Geonames.org
Safety Score: 3,0 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning we advice caution when travelling to United Kingdom.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning United Kingdom. Last Update: 2024-08-13 08:21:03
Discover Quinton
The district Quinton of Halesowen in Dudley (England) is a district in United Kingdom about 104 mi north-west of London, the country's capital city.
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When in this area, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Oldbury, Dudley, Birmingham, Walsall and Wolverhampton. 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 | 5°C / 40 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 7°C / 44 °F |
| Night Temperature | 5°C / 41 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 0% |
| Air Humidity | 75% |
| Air Pressure | 1027 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Light breeze with 5 km/h (3 mph) from North-East |
| Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
| General Conditions | Overcast clouds |
Saturday, 16th of November 2024
9°C (48 °F)
6°C (43 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Sunday, 17th of November 2024
7°C (45 °F)
2°C (36 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Monday, 18th of November 2024
5°C (40 °F)
-0°C (32 °F)
Snow, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
RAMADA OLDBURY BIRMINGHAM
Travellers Inn
Cobden Hotel Birmingham
Collection Hotel Birmingham
Edgbaston Palace
Village Hotel Birmingham Dudley
Quality Hotel Dudley
The Woodlands Hotel
M5 J1 Park Inn By Radisson Birmingham West
ibis Styles Birmingham Hagley Road
Videos from this area
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Arriving in the UK
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Volunteering for Loaves 'n' Fishes
An insight into how our staff members at Black Country Housing Group support Loaves 'n' Fishes.
TITFORD CANAL
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Driving On The M5 From J3 (Birmingham West & Central) To J2 (Dudley, Oldbury, Sandwell), England
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Introduction to Loaves 'n' Fishes
An introduction to our chosen charity for our 40th year featuring the co-founders, Anna & Steve Hartland.
Loaves 'n' Fishes: Steven's story
Steven talks about his inspirational story of how Loaves 'n' Fishes helped him and how they help the local community.
Amanda: Secretary of Loaves 'n' Fishes
We talk to Amanda about how she found out about Loaves 'n' Fishes, what she gains from it and how much the charity benefits the local community.
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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.
County Borough of Warley
Warley was a county borough and civil parish forming part of the West Midlands conurbation, England, and geographical county of Worcestershire. It was formed in 1966 by the combination of the existing county borough of Smethwick with the municipal boroughs of Oldbury and Rowley Regis (along with small sections of Birmingham, Dudley, Tipton, West Bromwich and Halesowen as well as an unpopulated fragment of Brierley Hill), by recommendation of the Local Government Commission for England.
Halesowen and Rowley Regis (UK Parliament constituency)
Halesowen and Rowley Regis is a constituency in the West Midlands represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by James Morris, a Conservative.
Warley (UK Parliament constituency)
Warley is a borough constituency in the West Midlands represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It has been continuously held by the Labour Party since its creation in 1997, and all four elections have so far seen the Labour share of the vote exceed 50%.
Halesowen Abbey
Halesowen Abbey was an abbey in Halesowen, England of which only ruins remain. It was located in an exclave of the historic county of Shropshire until 1844. In that year Halesowen was transferred to Worcestershire and then in 1974 to the new West Midlands county. The abbey was founded in 1215 by Premonstratensian canons under a grant from King John of England and went on to develop close connections with Titchfield Abbey in Hampshire.
Hill, West Midlands
Hill was a township in what is now the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. The township was situated between Halesowen and Blackheath, and covered an area including Coombeswood, Mucklow Hill and the Halesowen Golf Club. It was originally associated with the Halesowen parish, a detached part of Shropshire, which was transferred to the jurisdiction of Worcestershire in 1844 by the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844.
Woodgate, Birmingham
Woodgate is part of Birmingham, between Bartley Green and Harborne. It is split up into 3 parts, Woodgate Valley South (also known as South Woodgate), which is the gateway to Harborne. Woodgate Valley, which is next to Bartley Green, and Woodgate Valley North, often referred as part of Quinton.
Rowley Regis railway station
Rowley Regis railway station serves the town of Blackheath and the Rowley Regis area of Sandwell, in the West Midlands of England. It is located on the Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line. The station is managed by London Midland, who provide the majority of train services; there are also occasional services provided by Chiltern Railways.
Langley Green railway station
Langley Green railway station serves the Langley Green area of Oldbury in Sandwell, in the West Midlands of England. It is located on the Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line. The station is managed by London Midland, who provide the majority of train services; there are also occasional services provided by Chiltern Railways.
Warley, West Midlands
Warley is now in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands of the United Kingdom. A civil parish of Warley was created in 1884 by the merger of the Warley Salop parish with parts of the parishes of Warley Wigorn, Ridgacre and Oldbury. In 1908 the parish was abolished, becoming part of the municipal borough of Oldbury, although the Warley name was retained as a district of Oldbury, which was developed for housing after 1920.
Smethwick (UK Parliament constituency)
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Halesowen (medieval parish)
Halesowen (originally called Hale Manor) was a medieval parish in the West Midlands of England. The townships of Halesowen, Cakemore, Hasbury, Hawne, Hill, Hunnington, Illey, Lapal, Oldbury, Ridgacre, Romsley and Warley Salop formed a detached part of Shropshire; the rest of the parish, consisting of the chapelries of Cradley and Frankley, and the hamlets of Lutley and Warley Wigorn, was part of Worcestershire. The Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844 made the entire area part of Worcestershire.
Seth Somers Park
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Bourne College
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Lapal Tunnel
The Lapal Tunnel (old spelling Lappal Tunnel) is a disused 3,470-metre canal tunnel on the five mile dry section of the Dudley No. 2 Canal in the West Midlands, England. The narrow brick-lined tunnel, built in 1798 by William Underhill, had no towpath. It had a very small bore - at 7 feet 9 inches, barely wider than the boats which used it, with a headroom of only 6 feet.
Lapal
Lapal is a residential area of Halesowen in the West Midlands of England (part of Worcestershire until 1974). It is situated in the east of the town on the border with Birmingham and is served by Lapal Primary School and Leasowes Community College. Most of the houses were built between 1930 and 1980. In the late 1970s the large Abbeyfields estate was built alongside the currently disused portion of the Dudley Canal, adding to its already extensive owner-occupier housing stock.
Titford Canal
The Titford Canal is a narrow (7 foot) canal, a short branch of the Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) in Oldbury, West Midlands, England. Authorised under the Birmingham Canal Act 1768 which created the original Birmingham Canal, it was constructed in 1836-7 and opened on 4 November 1837.
Rood End railway station
Rood End railway station was on the former Great Western route from Birmingham Snow Hill to Stourbridge Junction. The station opened 1867 and closed some 18 years later. It was located about one mile north of the current Langley Green railway station. The line is still in use, although there is no sign of the former station. Preceding station Disused railways Following station Langley Green Great Western Railway Smethwick West
Bromsgrove Road Cutting
Bromsgrove Road Cutting is a 0.2 hectare (0.5 acre) geological site of Special Scientific Interest in the West Midlands. The site was notified in 1990 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. It is located on the eastern edge of Halesowen.
Oldbury Athletic F.C
Oldbury Athletic F.C. was a football club based in Oldbury, England. They were established in 1981. For the 2010–11 season, they were due to be playing in the West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division, but resigned 3 weeks before the start of the season and folded.
Halesowen railway station
Halesowen railway station was a railway station in Halesowen, England, on the Great Western Railway & Midland Railway's Joint Halesowen Railway line from Old Hill to Longbridge.
St Michael and All Angels' Church, Bartley Green
St. Michael and All Angels' Church, Bartley Green is a parish church in the Church of England located in Bartley Green, Birmingham.
Hurst Green, West Midlands
Hurst Green is a suburb of Halesowen in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, located on its north-eastern side. Its principal thoroughfares are Narrow Lane/Fairfield Road, Summerfield Avenue and Hurst Green Road, with a small shopping centre at the eastern end of the latter bordering the M5 motorway. It is a mixture of owner-occupied and municipal housing, the latter concentrated around Brandon Road/Westfield Road. There is an industrial area to its north along Fairfield Road and Cakemore Road.
Coombs Holloway Halt railway station
Coombs Holloway Halt railway station was a railway station in Halesowen, England, on the Great Western Railway & Midland Railway's Joint Halesowen Railway line from Old Hill to Longbridge. The station was intermediate stopping point between Halesowen and Old Hill, and was only ¾ of a mile from Old Hill station. It had a short lived life as a station of only 22 years.
Londonderry, West Midlands
Londonderry is a suburb of Smethwick, on the B4182 road, in the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, in the English county of West Midlands. Londonderry has a post office.
Langley Green, West Midlands
Langley Green is a suburb of Birmingham, on the B4169 road, in the Sandwell District, in the English county of West Midlands. Langley Green has a library and a railway station called Langley Green railway station.
These are some bigger and more relevant cities in the wider vivinity of Halesowen.
West Bromwich: Sandwell College Central Campus, West Bromwich (source)
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