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Acocks Green

Acocks Green is a suburban area and ward of southeast Birmingham, England.

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The place

Acocks Green is a suburban area and ward of southeast Birmingham, England. It is named after the Acock family, who built a large house there in 1370. It is occasionally spelled "Acock's Green". It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Acocks Green

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Sarehole

    Sarehole is an area in Hall Green, Birmingham, England. Historically in Worcestershire, it was a small hamlet in the larger parish, and manor, of Yardley, which was transferred to Birmingham in 1911.

    2.6 km · area in Hall Green, Birmingham, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ghamkol Shariff Masjid

    Central Jamia Mosque Ghamkol Sharif is a Sunni mosque in the Small Heath area of Birmingham, England. The website Muslims in Britain classifies the Ghamkol Shariff Masjid as Sufi – Barelvi.

    3.2 km · Sufi Mosque in Birmingham, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Masjid As-Salafi

    The As-Salafi Mosque, also known as the Salafi Mosque and as the Wright Street Mosque, is a Salafi Sunni mosque, located in the Small Heath area of Birmingham, in the West Midlands region of England, in the United Kingdom. The mosque was founded in 2002 and is situated near the intersection of Muntz and Wright Streets and just behind Coventry Road.

    3.6 km · mosque in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of the Ascension, Hall Green

    The Church of the Ascension is a Church of England parish church in the Hall Green area of Birmingham, England.

    1.8 km · church in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Oswald

    St Oswald's Church, Small Heath is a Grade II* listed former parish church in the Church of England in Birmingham.

    3.2 km · church in Small Heath, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Gregory the Great's Church, Small Heath

    St Gregory the Great's Church, Small Heath is a Grade II listed former Church of England parish church in Birmingham now used by the Bethel United Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic.

    2.7 km · church building in Small Heath, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Benedict's Church

    St Benedict's Church, Bordesley is a Church of England parish church in Hob Moor Road, Bordesley, West Midlands, England, about 2+1⁄2 miles east of Birmingham city centre. It is an early 20th-century church in Byzantine Revival style and is Grade II listed.

    3.4 km · church in Bordesley, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Agnes' Church, Moseley

    St Agnes Church, Moseley is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Moseley, Birmingham.

    3.8 km · grade II listed church in Moseley, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Blakesley Hall

    Blakesley Hall, a grade II* listed building is a Tudor hall on Blakesley Road in Yardley, Birmingham, England. It is one of the oldest buildings in Birmingham and is a typical example of Tudor architecture with the use of darkened timber and wattle-and-daub infill, with an external lime render which is painted white.

    3.1 km · Tudor hall in Yardley, Birmingham, England; now a museum · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Edburgha's Church, Yardley

    St Edburgha's Church is a parish church in the Yardley area of Birmingham, England. It is a Grade I listed building and a part of the Old Yardley conservation area.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed church in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Acocks Green

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 5 km · East Midlands (EMA), 54 km · Manchester (MAN), 105 km
Stations
Acocks Green railway station, 500 m · Tyseley railway station, 1.4 km · Yardley Wood railway station, 3.4 km · Hall Green railway station, 1.8 km · Olton railway station, 1.5 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Acocks Green
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £7–10
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Acocks Green
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £13–18
  • London → Acocks Green
    156 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · £17–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Acocks Green

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Acocks Green. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inHolyhead's ferry port ensures that the north of Wales is well connected with the whole West Midlands.

From Wikivoyage: West Midlands (county), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    199 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    241 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    410 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    446 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    466 km

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Around it

Next door to Acocks Green

Acocks Green is 7 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bordesley Greeninner-city area of Birmingham, England3.6 km
  • South Yardleysuburb and electoral ward in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK1.5 km
  • Tyseleydistrict in Birmingham, England800 m
  • Billesleysuburb and electoral ward in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK3.6 km
  • Sheldonarea of east Birmingham, England2.9 km
  • Small Heathsettlement in Birmingham, West Midlands, England2.8 km