Welcome to Visit Browns Green Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Browns Green
Visit Browns Green places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Browns Green places to visit. A unique way to experience Browns Green’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Browns Green as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Browns Green Walkfo Preview Browns Green (sometimes Brown’s Green or historically Browne’s Green) is a small area of Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, England. Adjacent areas include Handsworth, Hamstead and Sandwell Valley. When you visit Browns Green, Walkfo brings Browns Green places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Browns Green Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Browns Green
Visit Browns Green – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 134 audio plaques & Browns Green places for you to explore in the Browns Green area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Browns Green places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Browns Green with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Browns Green places with Walkfo Browns Green to hear history at Browns Green’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Browns Green has 134 places to visit in our interactive Browns Green map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Browns Green, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Browns Green places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Browns Green & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo Browns Green tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Browns Green
Best Browns Green places to visit
Browns Green has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Browns Green’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Browns Green’s information audio spots:
Hockley Tunnels Hockley Tunnels are two tunnels used by the railway and tram in Birmingham, England . Tunnel No. 1 is 136 yards (124 m) long and tunnel No. 2 is 160 yards (150m) long .
St Peter’s Church, Spring Hill St Peter’s Church, Spring Hill is a Grade B listed former Church of England parish church in Birmingham . It was built in the 1960s and is now on Spring Hill .
Key Hill Cemetery Key Hill Cemetery opened in 1836 as a nondenominational cemetery (in practice nonconformist) It is the oldest cemetery, not being in a churchyard, in Birmingham . The cemetery contains the graves of many prominent members of Birmingham society in the late 19th century .
Soho Manufactory The Soho Manufactory (grid reference SP051890) was an early factory which pioneered mass production on the assembly line principle, in Soho, Birmingham, at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution . It operated from 1766–1848 and was demolished in 1853 .
St John the Evangelist’s Church, Perry Barr St John the Evangelist’s Church, Perry Barr is a Grade II listed parish church . It is located in the Perry Barr area of Birmingham, England .
Witton Cemetery Witton Cemetery opened in 1863 as Birmingham City Cemetery . Covering 103 acres (0.42 km), it once had three chapels . Two of these were demolished in 1980 . The cemetery would perform up to 20 burials a day .
Charlemont and Grove Vale Charlemont with Grove Vale is a political ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the English Midlands constituency of West Bromwich East . The ward population as taken at the 2011 census was 11,964 .
West Midlands conurbation The West Midlands conurbation includes the cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton and the towns of Sutton Coldfield, Dudley, Walsall, West Bromwich, Solihull, Stourbridge and Halesowen. According to the 2011 Census the area had a population of 2,440,986, making it the third most populated in the United Kingdom behind the Greater London and Greater Manchester Built Up Areas. Not to be confused with the region or metropolitan county of the same name.
Hamstead Colliery Hamstead Colliery in Hamstead (then Staffordshire, now West Midlands) produced coal between 1878 and 1965. It suffered a major fire in 1908 in which 26 men died.
St Paul’s Church, Hamstead St Paul’s Church, Hamstead is a Grade II listed Church of England parish church in Birmingham, England. It is located in Hamstead, Birmingham, and is located on the outskirts of the city.
Visit Browns Green plaques
26 plaques hereBrowns Green has 26 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Browns Green plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Browns Green using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Browns Green plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Browns Green audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Browns Green allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Browns Green’s 134 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Browns Green freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Browns Green Map App
Our visit Browns Green map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Browns Green & surrounding areas using the Walkfo digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has plaque, building, street or area information on history, culture or tourism.
You can set your Walkfo’s Browns Green tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Browns Green centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Browns Green area at LONG:-1.9314, LAT:52.5199.
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Things to do & visit in Browns Green / surrounding areas
● J. Ashford & Son building ● Blue Orange Theatre ● Jewellery Quarter ● Hockley Tunnels ● St Peter’s Church, Spring Hill ● Spring Hill Library ● 1907 Birmingham Tramway accident ● Birmingham Mint ● Warstone Lane Cemetery ● Birmingham Arts Lab ● Chamberlain Clock ● Birmingham Union Workhouse ● St Edward’s Church, Hockley ● Hockley, West Midlands ● All Saints’ Church, Hockley ● St Stephen the Martyr’s Church, Newtown Row ● Key Hill Cemetery ● City Hospital, Birmingham ● Lozells and East Handsworth (ward) ● Smith and Pepper ● Museum of the Jewellery Quarter ● Soho Loop ● St George in the Fields, Hockley ● Newtown, Birmingham ● The Guitar Show ● Centre of the Earth ● Hockley Brook ● St Cuthbert’s Church, Winson Green ● St Saviour’s Church, Hockley ● All Saints’ Hospital, Winson Green
● St Chrysostom’s Church, Hockley ● HM Prison Birmingham ● St Mary’s Convent, Handsworth ● St Francis of Assisi Church, Handsworth ● Soho Manufactory ● Soho Mint ● Soho House ● Gib Heath ● St Michael’s Church, Handsworth ● Winson Green ● Guru Nanak Nishkam Sevak Jatha ● Bishop Latimer Memorial Church, Winson Green ● Soho TMD ● James Watt’s Mad Machine ● Winson Green Outer Circle tram stop ● St Silas’ Church, Lozells ● Black Patch Park ● Lozells ● Midland Metropolitan Hospital ● Soho Foundry ● Mitchells & Butlers Brewery ● Red Lion, Handsworth ● Smethwick Junction (canal) ● St Peter’s Church, Handsworth ● St James’ Church, Handsworth ● Engine Arm Aqueduct ● Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company ● Handsworth Park ● Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick ● Shree Geeta Bhawan ● Galton Valley Canal Heritage Centre ● St Mary’s Church, Handsworth ● St Andrew’s Church, Handsworth ● 2013 Smethwick fire ● The Hawthorns ● The Endwood ● Handsworth Wood ● St Paul’s Church, Lozells ● Birchfield, Birmingham ● Murder of Charlene Ellis and Letisha Shakespeare ● St James’ Church, Aston ● The Bartons Arms ● Aston Hippodrome ● Holy Trinity Church, Birchfield ● The Drum, Birmingham ● Aston Manor ● Big City Radio ● Aston Hall ● All Souls’ Church, Witton ● Villa Park ● Church of SS Peter & Paul, Aston ● Aston Arena ● Birchfield Ladbroke Stadium ● Perry Barr Stadium ● Continental Star F.C. ● Witton, Birmingham ● Perry Barr ● Urban District of Perry Barr ● Perry Bridge ● St John the Evangelist’s Church, Perry Barr ● Perry Hall Park ● Witton Cemetery ● Sandwell General Hospital ● Trinity Way tram stop ● Sandwell Valley ● Galton Junction ● Galton Bridge ● Summit Bridge, Smethwick ● Kenrick Park tram stop ● Rushall Canal ● Rushall Junction ● Charlemont and Grove Vale ● Old Oscott ● Lunar Society Moonstones ● Queslett ● Perry Beeches ● West Midlands conurbation ● Hamstead Colliery ● Hamstead, West Midlands ● Tower Hill, West Midlands ● St Paul’s Church, Hamstead ● Sandwell Valley RSPB reserve ● Browns Green ● Birmingham Crematorium ● The Anchorage, Birmingham ● Perry Park (Birmingham) ● Alexander Stadium ● Forge Mill Lake ● Great Barr ● Tame Valley Canal ● Red House Park ● Sandwell Valley Country Park ● Mortuary Chapel, Handsworth Cemetery ● Sandwell Hall ● Sandwell Priory ● Aston Villa F.C. ● Soho, West Midlands ● Smethwick ● Heathfield Hall ● List of EFL Championship stadiums ● Bishop Asbury Cottage ● Lions of the Great War
Getting to / around Browns Green – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Browns Green using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Browns Green places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Browns Green Public Transport Stations
Browns Green Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Hockley railway station (West Midlands)
Jewellery Quarter station
Icknield Port Road railway station
Winson Green railway station
Soho and Winson Green railway station
Soho Road railway station
Soho railway station
Handsworth and Smethwick railway station
The Hawthorns station
Smethwick Rolfe Street railway station
Handsworth Wood railway station
Perry Barr railway station
Witton railway station
Smethwick Galton Bridge railway station
Hamstead railway station
Newton Road railway station
Soho Benson Road tram stop
St Matthias’ Church, Farm Street, Birmingham
Handsworth Booth Street tram stop
Wellington Road (Perry Barr)
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Local Browns Green historians & Browns Green tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Browns Green? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Browns Green’s places, attractions & landmarks ability to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & using our simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. – Creating a new audio experience for your Browns Green place is free* and quick (15+ minutes if you prepare text content) to use, with Walkfo Creator doing the hard work of generating AI audio files for geo-spots from the text you provide with a simply click on a map. – The 100 Amazing Browns Green Places is just one example of an outdoor museum created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) for people to safely explore during Covid-19 times whilst visiting a city. Our tool is open to tourism organisations, travel destinations & National Trust locations to create their own audio walks to offer free when people visit Browns Green destinations. – Walkfo itself is looking to partner with websites offering things-to-do / what’s on events listings to enhance the content of our ‘visit-Browns Green’ web pages (for example: www.visitBrowns Green.com). If you are interested in partnering, please contact us to discuss options.
* Walkfo Creator is free to use for a limited number of audio spots within a map with a license fee applicable when more than 20 audio spots within location walk are created. v1.1336
Visit Browns Green places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Browns Green places to visit. A unique way to experience Browns Green’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Browns Green as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Browns Green places with Walkfo Browns Green to hear history at Browns Green’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Browns Green has 134 places to visit in our interactive Browns Green map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Browns Green, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Browns Green places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Browns Green & the surrounding areas.
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