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South Yardley

South Yardley is a largely residential area in east Birmingham, England about 3.5 miles (6 km) from the city centre, and one of the city's 69 electoral wards.

South Yardley
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The place

South Yardley is a largely residential area in east Birmingham, England about 3.5 miles (6 km) from the city centre, and one of the city's 69 electoral wards.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around South Yardley

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.

    3.8 km · football stadium in the Bordesley district of Birmingham · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sarehole

    Sarehole is an area in Hall Green, Birmingham, England. Historically in Worcestershire, it was a small hamlet in the larger parish, and manor, of Yardley, which was transferred to Birmingham in 1911.

    3.8 km · area in Hall Green, Birmingham, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.6 km · mosque in Birmingham · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Ghamkol Shariff Masjid

    Central Jamia Mosque Ghamkol Sharif is a Sunni mosque in the Small Heath area of Birmingham, England. The website Muslims in Britain classifies the Ghamkol Shariff Masjid as Sufi – Barelvi.

    2.7 km · Sufi Mosque in Birmingham, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of the Ascension, Hall Green

    The Church of the Ascension is a Church of England parish church in the Hall Green area of Birmingham, England.

    3.2 km · church in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Masjid As-Salafi

    The As-Salafi Mosque, also known as the Salafi Mosque and as the Wright Street Mosque, is a Salafi Sunni mosque, located in the Small Heath area of Birmingham, in the West Midlands region of England, in the United Kingdom. The mosque was founded in 2002 and is situated near the intersection of Muntz and Wright Streets and just behind Coventry Road.

    2.9 km · mosque in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Agatha's Church, Sparkbrook

    The Church of St Agatha is a parish church in the Church of England in Sparkbrook in Birmingham, England.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed church in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Benedict's Church

    St Benedict's Church, Bordesley is a Church of England parish church in Hob Moor Road, Bordesley, West Midlands, England, about 2+1⁄2 miles east of Birmingham city centre. It is an early 20th-century church in Byzantine Revival style and is Grade II listed.

    2.2 km · church in Bordesley, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Anglican Church Of All Saints (formerly St Aiden)

    All Saints’ Church, Small Heath is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Birmingham, which until 1998 was known as St Aidan's Church, Small Heath.

    3.4 km · church in Small Heath, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of St Oswald

    St Oswald's Church, Small Heath is a Grade II* listed former parish church in the Church of England in Birmingham.

    2.4 km · church in Small Heath, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK · 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 South Yardley

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 5 km · East Midlands (EMA), 53 km · Manchester (MAN), 104 km
Stations
Stechford railway station, 2.8 km · Spring Road railway station, 2.1 km · Hall Green railway station, 3.1 km · Small Heath railway station, 2.7 km · Acocks Green railway station, 1.2 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → South Yardley
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £7–10
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → South Yardley
    117 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £13–18
  • London → South Yardley
    156 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £17–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for South Yardley

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 South Yardley. 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

    200 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    242 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    409 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    445 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    465 km

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

Around it

Next door to South Yardley

South Yardley is 6 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Acocks Greenarea of south Birmingham, England1.5 km
  • Small Heathsettlement in Birmingham, West Midlands, England2.4 km
  • Tyseleydistrict in Birmingham, England1.4 km
  • Bordesley Greeninner-city area of Birmingham, England2.5 km
  • Sheldonarea of east Birmingham, England2.6 km
  • Sparkhillinner-city area of Birmingham, England3.2 km