The Shire Country Park

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The Shire Country Park is a country park in West Midlands, covering 0.91 km². It is one of eight country parks the Albion Guide lists in the county. The nearest railway station, Yardley Wood, is under a kilometre away. Kingfisher Country Park and Sheldon Country Park are among the country parks within 5.5 km.

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Stratford-upon-Avon Canal

Canal

Through the old Forest of Arden to Shakespeare's town, saved by volunteers in the 1960s restoration that changed canal history.

1.9 km S · Warwickshire & West Midlands

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Grand Union Canal

Canal

London to Birmingham by water — the trunk route of the canal age, with arms reaching Leicester, Aylesbury, Northampton and Paddington.

3 km N · spans 9 counties

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Gas Street Basin

Landmark near Birmingham

The canal crossroads at the heart of Birmingham, narrowboats moored among the old warehouses where the city's waterways meet.

5.9 km NW

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Birmingham Botanical Gardens

House & garden near Birmingham

A John Claudius Loudon design of 1832, arranged around four Victorian glasshouses.

5.9 km NW

JW Evans Silver Factory

Attraction near Birmingham

Family-run silverware works in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, trading from 1881 to 2008 and left as it closed, with its machinery and thousands of dies.

6.7 km NW