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Tipton
Town in the West Midlands, England

Tipton

Tipton is an industrial Black Country town in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell, in the county of the West Midlands, England.

Plan a trip to Tipton→From Nottingham, Leicestershire

It had a population of 38,777 at the 2011 UK census. It is located northwest of Birmingham and southeast of Wolverhampton, and is also contiguous with Darlaston, Dudley, Wednesbury and Bilston.

Get in

Getting to Tipton

The M5 starts in West Bromwich with Junction 1, 0.7 miles (1.2 km) from the town centre. Junction 2 lies south of Oldbury just 0.9 miles (1.4 km) away from Oldbury town centre. The M6 runs along the outskirts of the North border of Sandwell with Junction 7 and 8 merging with the M5 North of West Bromwich. Junction 9 is north of Wednesbury 1.2 miles (1.9 km) from the town centre.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Lightwoods Park

    Park in Bearwood that can be reached from the woods by crossing Lightwoods Hill.

  2. 02
    Coronation Gardens

    You will find a statue to William Perry, a 19th-century bare-fist boxing champion, often known as the "Tipton Slasher".

  3. 03
    RSPB Sandwell Valley

    20 Tanhouse Ave, Great Barr, B43 5AG (Train to Hamstead; No 16 bus; or signposted from local roads), sandwellvalley@rspb.org.uk.

  4. 04
    Dartmouth Park

    A large green area with parks, a forest, a nature reserve, and Sandwell Park Farm.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Sandwell Aquatics Centre

    Olympic swimming and diving pool built for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, and now a public facility.

  2. 02
    Tipton Sports Academy

    It provides facilities for many sports including track sports, football, tennis, squash and others, all open to the public at cheap rates.

Eat

Where to eat

Teknaf Cuisine, 622 Bearwood Road, Bearwood (Hagley Road end of the High Street),. One of the better balti houses in Bearwood, with a more modern take on Indian and Bangladeshi cuisine. £10-20. Franzl's (Austrian Cuisine), Milcote Road, Bearwood. An Austrian restaurant, nestled on a residential street in Bearwood. Expensive but well regarded. £20-30. The Kings Head (Gastro Pub), Hagley Road, Bearwood,.

  1. 01
    Mad O'Roukes Pie Factory

    A theme pub which serves a range of hearty pies and ales.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Roc0ast3r (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.