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Birmingham has 591 parks and open spaces, [1] totalling over 3,500 hectares (14 sq mi), [2] more than any other equivalent sized European city. [3] The centrepieces of Birmingham's park system are the five Premier Parks. Fifteen parks have received the prestigious Green Flag Award. [4]
Squares in Birmingham, West Midlands (1 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Parks and open spaces in Birmingham, West Midlands" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total.
There are 571 parks within Birmingham [154] – more than any other European city [155] – totalling over 3,500 hectares (14 sq mi) of public open space. [154] The city has over six million trees, [155] and 250 miles (400 kilometres) of urban brooks and streams. [154]
The NEC has 20 interconnected halls covering 190,000 m 2 (2,000,000 sq ft) of floor space. [13] Regular exhibitions in the past have included the British International Motor Show and the international dog show Crufts. [13] The NEC has 16,500 parking spaces spread around the site, with a shuttle bus service operating to and from the car parks.
The Avondale Park Historic District in Birmingham, Alabama, United States is a 200 acres (81 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [1] It is in the Avondale section of the city. It includes work dating to 1886 and work by Burnhum & Greer.
Site clearance underway in January 2020. Construction is due to be completed in 2028 [11]. At the start of 2019, the site was cleared. As at all HS2 sites, site clearance was followed by an extensive archaeological programme, in this case involving 70 archaeologists, which unearthed what is thought to be the world's oldest railway roundhouse adjacent to the old Curzon Street station.
Before the introduction of official maps of public paths in the early 1950s, the public did not know where paths were, and the Open Spaces Society helped the successful campaign for paths to be shown on Ordnance Survey maps. Its work also includes helping to protect common land, town and village greens, open spaces and public paths.
Map of the Birmingham Metropolitan Area showing its built-up areas, morphological boundaries and catchment zones. The Birmingham Metropolitan Area is an urban agglomeration located in the West Midlands region of England with a population of around 4.3 million people, making it the second largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom. [3]