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Bordesley Green

Bordesley Green is an inner-city area of Birmingham, England about two miles east of the city centre.

Bordesley Green
Bordesley Green · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Bordesley Green is an inner-city area of Birmingham, England about two miles east of the city centre. It also contains a road of the same name. It is in the Bordesley Green Ward which also covers some of Small Heath and Little Bromwich. Bordesley Green East is in the Heartlands Ward.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bordesley 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
    St Andrew's

    St Andrew's, known since 2024 for sponsorship reasons as St. Andrew's @ Knighthead Park, is an association football stadium in the Bordesley district of Birmingham, England.

    1.6 km · football stadium in the Bordesley district of Birmingham · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Aston University

    Aston University is a public university situated in the city centre of Birmingham, England. Aston began as the Birmingham Municipal Technical School in 1895, evolving into the UK's first college of advanced technology in 1956.

    3.3 km · university in Birmingham, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Philip's Cathedral

    The Cathedral Church of Saint Philip, also called the Birmingham Cathedral, is a Church of England cathedral and the seat of the Bishop of Birmingham. Built as a parish church in the Baroque style by Thomas Archer, it was consecrated in 1715.

    3.8 km · cathedral in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Birmingham Central Mosque

    Birmingham Central Mosque, is a mosque in the Highgate area of Birmingham, England, run by the Birmingham Mosque Trust. The organization, 'Muslims in Britain’ classify the Birmingham Central Mosque as, nonsectarian.

    3.4 km · mosque in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    West Midlands Metro

    The West Midlands Metro is a light-rail/tram system in the county of West Midlands, England. The network has 35 stops with a total of 14.9 miles of track; it currently consists of a single route, Line 1, which operates between two termini in the city of Birmingham and two in the city of Wolverhampton via the towns of Bilston, Wednesbury and West Bromwich, on a mixture of former railway lines and urban on-street running.

    4 km · light rail system in the West Midlands, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Chad's Cathedral

    The Metropolitan Cathedral Church and Basilica of Saint Chad is a Catholic cathedral in Birmingham, England. It is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Birmingham and is dedicated to Saint Chad of Mercia.

    3.8 km · Catholic cathedral in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    10 Holloway Circus

    10 Holloway Circus is a 400-foot tall mixed-use skyscraper in Birmingham city centre, England. It was originally named after the developers, Beetham Organisation, and was designed by Ian Simpson and built by Laing O'Rourke.

    3.8 km · skyscraper in Birmingham, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Thinktank

    Thinktank, Birmingham is a science museum in Birmingham, England. Opened in 2001, it is part of Birmingham Museums Trust and is located within the Millennium Point complex on Curzon Street, Digbeth.

    3 km · Science museum · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Darul Barakaat Mosque

    The Darul Barakaat is a large mosque in Bordesley, Birmingham, England. It was built in 2004, and can accommodate 1000 worshippers, with a further 1000 worshippers in the adjoining halls.

    1.4 km · mosque in Birmingham · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Selfridges Building, Birmingham

    The Selfridges Building is a building in Birmingham, England. The building is part of the Bullring Shopping Centre and houses Selfridges Department Store.

    3.3 km · landmark neo-Futurist building in Birmingham, England · 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 Bordesley Green

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 7 km · East Midlands (EMA), 53 km · Manchester (MAN), 101 km
Stations
Birmingham New Street railway station, 3.7 km · Birmingham Moor Street railway station, 3.2 km · Birmingham Snow Hill station, 3.9 km · Stechford railway station, 2.4 km · Small Heath railway station, 1.7 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Bordesley Green
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £7–10
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Bordesley Green
    115 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £13–17
  • London → Bordesley Green
    160 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bordesley 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 Bordesley 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

    202 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    242 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    406 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    442 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    466 km

If you know how people move in Bordesley Green – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bordesley Green

Bordesley Green is 4 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.