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| Country | England |
| County | West Midlands |
| City | Birmingham |
Rotton Park is an area of Birmingham, England, encompassing the north of Edgbaston Ward and the Southern Extremes of Soho Ward, to the city boundary.
Sources differ as to the origin of the name. Some claim it is derived from the Rotton family, [1] (Ambrose and Bridget Rotton built a surviving timber-framed house, now known as Stratford House, at Camp Hill, in 1601. [1] ) Others say it is derived from the Anglo-Saxon 'rot tun', meaning 'cheerful farm'. [2]
The first recorded use of the name was in 1275. [2] A 1307 document refers to "Parc de Rotton juxta [near] Birmingham". [2] In 1826, Thomas Telford built Edgbaston Reservoir, them known as Rotton Park Reservoir, by damming a small stream. Local land agent John Chesshire built a large house for the wealthy banker Samuel Jones Lloyd, Lord Overstone in the 1850s. The estate included detached villas in Montague, Vernon and Clarendon Roads. One villa was named after Joseph Gillott's youngest son. St Augustine's Church near Hagley Road was built in 1868 to a design by architect J. A. Chatwin. [3]
For a time, Birmingham City Council had a Rotton Park Ward. Edward Marks stood as a Liberal candidate for the ward in 1911. [4]
Edgbaston Reservoir and the adjacent Icknield Port Loop (originally called Rotton Park Loop) of the Birmingham Canal Navigations. The name is also found in Rotton Park Road, site of the former Rotton Park Road railway station. [5] On City Road, (the A4040 road) which passes through Rotton Park, are the churches City Road Methodist Church and City Road Baptist Church. The Anglican Christ Church Summerfield is on Gillott Road near the reservoir. [6]
Joseph Gillott was an English pen-manufacturer and patron of the arts based in Birmingham.
Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) is a network of canals connecting Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and the eastern part of the Black Country. The BCN is connected to the rest of the English canal system at several junctions.
Edgbaston is an affluent suburban area of central Birmingham, England, historically in Warwickshire, and curved around the southwest of the city centre. It is bordered by Moseley to the south east and by Smethwick and Winson Green to the north west.
Harborne is an area of south-west Birmingham, England, three miles (5 km) southwest from Birmingham city centre. It is a Birmingham City Council ward in the formal district and in the parliamentary constituency of Birmingham Edgbaston.
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Four Oaks is an extremely affluent residential area in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, lying along the north and east borders of Sutton Park. Four Oaks is situated approximately 7 1⁄2 miles (12.1 km) north of Birmingham City Centre, and is bordered by Sutton Park, Streetly, Mere Green, Little Aston and Roughley. Four Oaks has a population of 21,690 as of 2004, and is part of the Sutton Four Oaks electoral ward.
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Edgbaston Reservoir, originally known as Rotton Park Reservoir and referred to in some early maps as Rock Pool Reservoir, is a canal feeder reservoir in Birmingham, England.. It is situated close to Birmingham City Centre and is a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation.
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The Church of St Augustine of Hippo in Lyttelton Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, is a parish church in the Church of England.
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The Engine Arm or Birmingham Feeder Arm near Smethwick, West Midlands, England, is a short canal built by Thomas Telford in 1825 to carry water from Rotton Park Reservoir to the Old Main Line of the BCN Main Line Canal.
The Harborne Railway was a short standard gauge railway line constructed for residential travel from the Harborne area into the centre of Birmingham, England. The line opened in 1874, and was worked by the London and North Western Railway. As business developed, an increasingly frequent passenger service was operated, at its peak thirty trains each way daily.
The BCN Main Line, or Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line describes the evolving route of the Birmingham Canal between Birmingham and Wolverhampton in England.
This article is intended to show a timeline of events in the History of Birmingham, England, with a particular focus on the events, people or places that are covered in Wikipedia articles.
Rotton Park Road railway station was a railway station in England, built by the Harborne Railway and operated by the London and North Western Railway in 1874.
The Icknield Port Loop is a 0.6-mile (1 km) loop of the eighteenth-century-built Old BCN Main Line canal in Birmingham, England, about 2 miles (3 km) west of the city centre, which opened to traffic on 6 November 1769 and in some definitions includes its straighter bypass built in September 1827, a 550-yard (500 m) section of the New BCN Main Line. Most of the 56 acres (23 ha) of land thereby enclosed is derelict meaning the canal serves the Canal & River Trust maintenance depot at Icknield Port and conveys water from Edgbaston Reservoir to the BCN Main Line. The enclosed land has no pedestrian or vehicular access. Icknield Port (Loop) takes its name from the Roman Icknield Street which passed nearby, the exact route of which is unknown.
Summerfield is a district in Birmingham, in the West Midlands county of England. The area takes its name from Summerfield House, owned by members of the Chance family, local industrialists, and which stood on the site of the current bandstand in Summerfield Park.
