Hamstead, West Midlands
Hamstead is an area straddling the border of Birmingham and Sandwell, England, between Handsworth Wood and Great Barr, and adjacent to the Sandwell Valley area of West Bromwich.
Hamstead is an area straddling the border of Birmingham and Sandwell, England, between Handsworth Wood and Great Barr, and adjacent to the Sandwell Valley area of West Bromwich. Hamstead Colliery was worked from the 19th century to the 1960s, with much housing built for the miners. Today the area is still referred to as Hamstead Village.
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Getting to Hamstead, West Midlands
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 15 km · East Midlands (EMA), 52 km · Manchester (MAN), 94 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Hamstead, West Midlands70 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £8–11
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Hamstead, West Midlands108 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £12–16
- Liverpool → Hamstead, West Midlands120 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £14–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hamstead, West Midlands
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 Hamstead, West Midlands. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Hamstead, West Midlands
Hamstead, West Midlands is 6 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.