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Perry Barr

Perry Barr is a suburban area in north Birmingham, in the county of the West Midlands, England.

The place

Perry Barr is a suburban area in north Birmingham, in the county of the West Midlands, England. It is also the name of a council constituency, managed by its own district committee. Birmingham Perry Barr is also a parliamentary constituency; its Member of Parliament between 2001 and 2024 was Labour's Khalid Mahmood. The MP as of July 2024 is Ayoub Khan, who ran as an Independent.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Perry Barr

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
    Alexander Stadium

    Stadium in Birmingham, UK

    600 m · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Back to the Beginning

    2025 Black Sabbath concert

    2.2 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Aston Hall

    Jacobean house in Aston, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK

    2.5 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Birmingham City University

    UK university (2007-)

    1 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Shree Geeta Bhawan

    Hindu temple in Handsworth, Birmingham, England

    2.2 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Great Barr Hall

    At-risk 18th-century mansion near Walsall, England

    3.7 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St George in the Fields, Hockley

    Church in United Kingdom

    3.8 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Aston Junction

    Canal junction in the uk

    4 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    All Saints' Church, Gravelly Hill

    Church in United Kingdom

    3.3 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Mark's Church, Stockland Green

    Church in United Kingdom

    2.8 km · 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.

Go there

Getting to Perry Barr

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 13 km · East Midlands (EMA), 52 km · Manchester (MAN), 95 km
Stations
Jewellery Quarter railway station, 4 km · Perry Barr railway station, 1 km · Gravelly Hill railway station, 3.6 km · Hamstead railway station, 1.7 km · Aston railway station, 3.2 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Perry Barr
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £7–10
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Perry Barr
    110 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £12–16
  • Liverpool → Perry Barr
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £14–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Perry Barr

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 Perry Barr. 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

    208 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    242 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    400 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    436 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    460 km

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

Around it

Next door to Perry Barr

Perry Barr is 5 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Astonarea within the city of Birmingham, England, UK3.2 km
  • Witton railway stationstation that serves the Witton area of the city of Birmingham, England2 km
  • Handsworthdistrict of Birmingham, England, formerly in Staffordshire3.4 km
  • Lozellsinner-city area in West Birmingham, England2.6 km
  • Kingstandingdistrict of Birmingham, England3.3 km
  • Handsworth Woodsuburb of Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK1.7 km