Dickens Heath
Dickens Heath is a large modern village and civil parish in the borough of Solihull in the West Midlands and historic Warwickshire, incorporating the much older hamlet of Whitlocks End.
Dickens Heath is a large modern village and civil parish in the borough of Solihull in the West Midlands and historic Warwickshire, incorporating the much older hamlet of Whitlocks End. It was previously part of the civil parish of Hockley Heath, and borders Cheswick Green and Tidbury Green in Solihull, as well as Major's Green in Worcestershire.
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Worth seeing in and around Dickens Heath
3 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.
- 01St James the Great, Shirley
St James the Great, Shirley is a Grade II listed parish church in the town of Shirley in Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands, England. It is part of the Anglican Diocese of Birmingham.
2.5 km · church in Shirley, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Christ Church
Christ Church, Yardley Wood is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Birmingham.
3.6 km · church in Yardley Wood, Birmingham, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Robin Hood Cemetery
Robin Hood Cemetery and Crematorium is located near Shirley, West Midlands, within the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, in the West Midlands. The cemetery was opened in 1917 and covers an area of 45 acres and comprises extensive landscaped lawn graves interspersed with ancient woodland.
4 km · cemetery in Solihull, West Midlands, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Dickens Heath
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 10 km · East Midlands (EMA), 60 km · Manchester (MAN), 111 km
- Stations
- Shirley railway station, 2 km · Whitlocks End railway station, 1.2 km · Wythall railway station, 2 km · Earlswood railway station, 2.7 km · The Lakes railway station, 3 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Dickens Heath78 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–11
- London → Dickens Heath153 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £16–21
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Dickens Heath125 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £15–20
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No local-transport research exists yet for Dickens Heath
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 Dickens Heath. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Dickens Heath
Dickens Heath is 11 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Wythallvillage in Worcestershire, England, UK3.5 km
- Tidbury Greenvillage and civil parish in West Midlands, UK1.2 km
- Cheswick Greenvillage and civil parish in Solihull, West Midlands, UK1.8 km
- Hollywoodvillage in Worcestershire, UK2.8 km
- Major's Greenvillage in Worcestershire, England, UK1.5 km
- Earlswoodvillage in Warwickshire and West Midlands, England, UK2.4 km