A report on Warwickshire

Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick from Church Street

County in the West Midlands region of England.

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Birmingham

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City and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England.

The charters of 1166 and 1189 established Birmingham as a market town and seigneurial borough.

The East Prospect of Birmingham (1732), engraving by William Westley

Matthew Boulton, a prominent early industrialist

The Soho Manufactory of 1765 – pioneer of the factory system and the industrial steam engine

Thomas Attwood addressing a 200,000-strong meeting of the Birmingham Political Union during the Days of May 1832 – oil on canvas by Benjamin Haydon (c. 1832–1833)

Ruins of the Bull Ring, destroyed during the Birmingham Blitz, 1940

Aftermath of the bomb attack on the Mulberry Bush Pub during the pub bombings of 1974

World leaders meet in Birmingham for the 1998 G8 Summit

The Council House, headquarters of Birmingham City Council

Birmingham and the wider West Midlands Built-up Area seen from ESA Sentinel-2

The city as seen from Studley Tower in Highgate.

Historical population of Birmingham, between 1651 and 2011

Colmore Row, at the heart of Birmingham's Business District, is traditionally the most prestigious business address in the city.

The Jaguar F-Type, made by Jaguar Land Rover at Castle Bromwich Assembly

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall

Birmingham Town Hall dating from 1834, one of the most prominent music venues in the city

Black Sabbath, pioneers of heavy metal, formed in Birmingham in 1968.

The Birmingham Hippodrome, home of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, is the UK's busiest single theatre.

W. H. Auden grew up in the Birmingham area and resided there for much of his early life.

Rhyl Sands (c.1854), by David Cox, a major figure in the Birmingham School of landscape artists

Digbeth Institute, an influential music venue since the 1960s

Birmingham's St Patrick's Day parade, the largest in Europe outside Dublin,
is the city's largest single-day event.

Simpsons in Edgbaston, one of the city's five Michelin-starred restaurants

17 & 19 Newhall Street, constructed in Birmingham's characteristic Victorian red brick and terracotta style

The iconic Selfridges Building,
by architects Future Systems

The Old Crown Pub is one of the oldest buildings in Birmingham.

The Gravelly Hill Interchange, where the M6 motorway meets the Aston Expressway, is the original Spaghetti Junction.

Birmingham New Street is the largest and busiest railway station in the UK outside London.

The West Midlands Metro is the growing tram system in Birmingham.

National Express West Midlands operates most of the major bus routes in Birmingham.

Moseley School, one of the largest of the city's 77 secondary schools

The Library of Birmingham is the new home for the largest municipal library in Europe.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Edgbaston houses the largest single floor critical care unit in the world.

Aston Villa vs Birmingham City in the Second City derby at Villa Park

Test cricket at Edgbaston Cricket Ground

International athletics at the National Indoor Arena

The Electric is the oldest working cinema in the UK.

The Mailbox, headquarters of BBC Birmingham

An aerial photograph of Birmingham in 1946

The Bull by Laurence Broderick at the shopping centre "The Bull Ring"

Historically a market town in Warwickshire in the medieval period, Birmingham grew during the 18th century during the Midlands Enlightenment and during the Industrial Revolution, which saw advances in science, technology and economic development, producing a series of innovations that laid many of the foundations of modern industrial society.

Stratford-upon-Avon

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Stratford-upon-Avon Town Hall, home to Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council

View over Stratford with the River Avon and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Inland summer cloud development, July 2010, Stratford is denoted by the yellow dot.

Hotel Indigo (formerly The Falcon Hotel) is one of many employers in the hospitality industry within Stratford.

The Royal Shakespeare Theatre showing the embedded Swan Theatre

Some of the many cafés and restaurants along Sheep Street

Some of the recently uncovered wall paintings

A boat tour of the Avon in a converted barge

The 15th century Guildhall and Almshouses on Church Street

Clopton Bridge allowed trade to flourish in Stratford

The original Shakespeare Memorial Theatre of 1879

Stratford-upon-Avon, commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England.

Coventry

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City in the West Midlands, England.

The coat of arms of Coventry in stained glass in Holy Trinity Church

A 1972 Hillman Avenger, produced in Coventry by Chrysler Competitions Department

Coventry precinct with spire of ruined cathedral in the background, before the Coventry 2021 preparations.

View of Broadgate towards the Upper Precinct and Lower Precinct, part of the city's post-war development under the Gibson Plan

Godiva Festival, a major event on the Coventry arts and culture calendar

Warwick Arts Centre in Warwick University Campus in the 1990s

CBS Arena in 2007, then called the Ricoh Arena.

Coventry's skyline (view from the footbridge over the railway by Central 6 shopping centre). The three spires are: Holy Trinity (left), remaining spire of the ruined (bombed) cathedral and the remaining spire of the ruined Christ Church (right).

The "Whittle Arch" outside the Transport Museum, named after Sir Frank Whittle

Millennium Square by night, showing the Time Zone Clock designed by Francoise Schein with the Whittle Arch soaring above

The city centre at night, seen in April 2013

The Alan Berry building, Coventry University.

The Coventry city flag, showing Lady Godiva

Coventry city centre being redeveloped in 1936 during modernisation

Historically part of Warwickshire, Coventry had a population of 316,915 at the 2011 census, making it the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom.

Warwick

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West Gate, and Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick

Houses opposite the Lord Leycester Hospital. The red brick indicates the Friends Meeting House where the Great Fire of Warwick began in 1694

View of the bridge ruins from Warwick Castle

Collegiate Church of St Mary from Church Street

Shire Hall, Warwick, the meeting place of Warwickshire County Council

Market Hall museum, in the Market Square

Warwick bus station near the Lord Leycester Hospital

Warwick is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire, England, adjacent to the River Avon.

Leamington Spa

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Leamington Spa Town Hall (1884) with Queen Victoria's statue

St John the Baptist's Church (Church of England)

Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or simply Leamington, is a spa town and civil parish in Warwickshire, England.

Nuneaton

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Nuneaton Town Hall (1934) the headquarters of Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council.

Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery, Riversley Park, home of collection on writer George Eliot

Statue of George Eliot on Newdegate Square

Nuneaton is a market town in the Borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth in northern Warwickshire, England, close to the county border with Leicestershire and West Midlands County.

The hand axe discovered in 1970s in Hallow. Potentially the first Early Middle Palaeolithic artefact from the West Midlands.

Worcestershire

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County in the West Midlands of England.

The Battle of Powick Bridge on the River Teme on 23 September 1642 began the English Civil War.

Halesowen was an exclave of neighbouring Shropshire until 1844 when it was reincorporated into Worcestershire. It is now within the metropolitan county of the West Midlands.

Broadway Tower, one of several Worcestershire follies

Summit of the Worcestershire Beacon in the Malvern Hills, the county's highest point

Honeybourne railway station on the Cotswold Line and the potential Honeybourne Line

New Road is the home of Worcestershire County Cricket Club, across the River Severn from Worcester Cathedral.

Classical composer Sir Edward Elgar was born in this house in Broadheath, Worcestershire, currently used as the Elgar Birthplace Museum.

Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce - the invention of two Worcester chemists

Due to its cathedral (pictured), the county town of Worcester is the only settlement in the county with city status.

The county borders Herefordshire to the west, Shropshire to the north-west, Staffordshire only just to the north, West Midlands to the north and north-east, Warwickshire to the east and Gloucestershire to the south.

Staffordshire

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Landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.

The Staffordshire Hoard, discovered in a field near Lichfield in July 2009, is perhaps the most important collection of Anglo-Saxon objects found in England.

Mow Cop Castle on the Staffordshire Moorlands

The Broad Eye Windmill in Stafford, home of Windmill Broadcasting

The Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal

Map of Staffordshire and its hundreds, by Wenceslas Hollar, c. 1627–1677

It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands County and Worcestershire to the south, and Shropshire to the west.