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Phoenix prefabs, 1945, on Wake Green Road
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First English home of J. R. R. Tolkien, aged 4–8
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Moseley School

Wake Green (grid reference SP085823 ) is a historical area in south Birmingham, England between Moseley, Kings Heath, and Hall Green.

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Like nearby Sarehole it is no longer a postal address. It used to straddle the parish boundary of Yardley (Worcestershire at the time) and Kings Norton and was an area of "waste land", that is, land which had not yet been cultivated. In the past it had a post mill (windmill) – Wake Green Mill – mentioned in a deed of 1664 when it was in the possession of Richard Grevis. [1] This was just above what is now Moseley Bog.

Sarehole

Sarehole is an area in Hall Green, Birmingham, England. Sarehole was a hamlet which gave its name to a farm and a mill. It extended from the ford at Green Lane, southwards for about a mile, along the River Cole to the Dingles. Birmingham City Council has named the segment of the path along the Cole southwards from Sarehole Mill the John Morris Jones Walkway after a local historian.

Yardley, Birmingham area in Birmingham, England

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Worcestershire County of England

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As the outskirts of Birmingham became built upon around the turn of the twentieth century, Wake Green disappeared beneath the growing "villages" of Moseley and Kings Heath, eventually becoming the centre of a new parish of Saint Agnes, Moseley [2] (now a conservation area). Its name lives on in Wake Green Road.

Wake Green Road

Wake Green Road runs from the centre of Moseley for about two miles to the south east. It has several listed buildings along it:

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Moseley School grade II listed secondary school in the United kingdom

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It also has the house J. R. R. Tolkien first lived in (the Gracewell cottages) when he came to England at the age of four, in a hamlet then called Sarehole, opposite Sarehole Mill.

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Sarehole Mill water mill on the River Cole in Hall Green, Birmingham, England

Sarehole Mill is a Grade II listed water mill on the River Cole in Hall Green, Birmingham, England. It is now run as a museum by the Birmingham Museums Trust. It is known for its association with J. R. R. Tolkien and is one of only two working water mills in Birmingham, with the other being New Hall Mill in Walmley, Sutton Coldfield.

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Kings Heath suburb of Birmingham

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References

  1. ↑ Windmills of Birmingham and the Black Country, Joseph McKenna, ISBN   0-947731-10-5
  2. ↑ "St Agnes Church". St Agnes Moseley.
  3. ↑ Historic England. "Photograph of one of the Phoenix prefabs and details from listed building text (1022587)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 18 May 2006.

Coordinates: 52°26′19″N1°52′35″W / 52.43861°N 1.87639°W / 52.43861; -1.87639


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