Hockley Heath
Hockley Heath is a village and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England.
Hockley Heath is a village and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England. The village is to the south of the West Midlands conurbation, 12 miles (19 km) south-east of Birmingham 5.5 miles (8.9 km) from Solihull town centre and 13 miles (21 km) north of Stratford-upon-Avon. Hockley Heath is in the Arden area and borders Warwickshire and the District of Stratford-on-Avon to the south, with some parts of the village on either side of the border. It incorporates the hamlet of Nuthurst, and has a history dating back to the year 705 AD as a wood owned by Worcester Cathedral. The 2011 Census gives the population of Hockley Heath civil parish as 2,038. Today the village serves commuters to both London and Birmingham via local transport connections, and is the home of the Vintage Sports-Car Club.
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Worth seeing in and around Hockley 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.
- 01Packwood House
Packwood House is a timber-framed Tudor manor house in Packwood on the Solihull border near Lapworth, Warwickshire. Owned by the National Trust since 1941, the house is a Grade I listed building.
2.3 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Warwick, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Umberslade Hall
Umberslade Hall is a 17th-century mansion converted into residential apartments situated in Nuthurst near Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.
2.4 km · country house in Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Umberslade Baptist Church
Umberslade Baptist Church is a redundant Baptist church southwest of the village of Hockley Heath, Solihull, West Midlands, England. The church, attached school rooms, and the church hall were originally recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building in 1972, but on 9 July 2014, the grading was raised to II*.
1.2 km · church in Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hockley Heath
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 11 km · East Midlands (EMA), 61 km · London Luton (LTN), 110 km
- Stations
- Dorridge railway station, 2.4 km · Lapworth railway station, 3.8 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Hockley Heath79 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £8–11
- London → Hockley Heath147 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £16–21
- Luton, Luton → Hockley Heath107 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £12–17
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hockley 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 Hockley Heath. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Hockley Heath
Hockley Heath is 16 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Lapworthvillage in Warwickshire, England, UK2.2 km
- Cheswick Greenvillage and civil parish in Solihull, West Midlands, UK3.5 km
- Kingswoodvillage in Warwickshire, United Kingdom3.9 km
- Dorridgevillage in West Midlands, England, UK2.3 km
- Packwoodvillage in the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England1.7 km
- Bentley Heathvillage in West Midlands, England, UK3.4 km