Welcome to Visit Wylde Green Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Wylde Green
Visit Wylde Green places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Wylde Green places to visit. A unique way to experience Wylde Green’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Wylde Green as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Wylde Green Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Wylde Green
Visit Wylde Green – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 86 audio plaques & Wylde Green places for you to explore in the Wylde Green area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Wylde Green places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Wylde Green history
In the 16th century, Wylde Green was sparsely populated. After the Enclosure Act of 1825, there was some development and in 1840 the growth of the population to about 60 led to the building of the first school. In the 1850s substantial Victorian mansions began to appear along the Birmingham Road. Highbridge Road and Station Road were laid out in 1858 in anticipation of the coming of the railway.
Wylde Green geography / climate
Wylde Green is situated on the south side of Sutton Coldfield, bordering the Chester Road district of north Erdington, Birmingham and the Pype Hayes district to the southeast. To the north is Beeches Walk (an informal boundary between it and the Maney area that heralds the start of the town centre) To the east across New Hall Valley is Walmley, and on the west is Boldmere.
Why visit Wylde Green with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Wylde Green places with Walkfo Wylde Green to hear history at Wylde Green’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Wylde Green has 86 places to visit in our interactive Wylde 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 Wylde 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 Wylde Green places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Wylde Green & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Wylde Green tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Wylde Green
Best Wylde Green places to visit
Wylde Green has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Wylde Green’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Wylde Green’s information audio spots:
Gravelly Hill Gravelly Hill is an area of Birmingham, United Kingdom . It is a small part of the Birmingham city centre of the city . It was also known as Gravelly Hills in the 1960s .
Short Heath, Birmingham Short Heath is an area of Birmingham, England near to Erdington . The area’s postcode is B23. The area is near Erdington and Short Heath .
Perry Common Perry Common is an area of north Birmingham that includes parts of Stockland Green and Kingstanding . It falls within the Birmingham Erdington parliamentary constituency .
Fort Dunlop Fort Dunlop (grid reference SP129902), is the name of the original tyre factory . It was established in 1917, and by 1954 the entire factory area employed 10,000 workers . At one time it was the world’s largest factory .
Castle Vale Town F.C. Castle Vale Town Football Club is a football club based in the Castle Vale area of Birmingham, England . They are currently members of the Midland League Division Three and play at the Vale Stadium .
OpenStreetMap Foundation The OpenStreetMap Foundation (abbreviated OSMF) is a non-profit foundation whose aim is to support and enable the development of freely-reusable geospatial data. Its constitution does not prevent it supporting other projects.
Romulus F.C. Romulus Football Club is a football club based in Castle Vale, Birmingham, England. The club was formed in 1979 by club president Roger Evans, initially the team played Sunday league football. First team play in the Midland League Premier Division.
Sutton Trinity (ward) Sutton Trinity is one of the 40 electoral wards in Birmingham. It is named after Holy Trinity Church, the town’s parish church. It was created on 10 June 2004 following a Boundary Commission review of the city.
Sutton Coldfield power station Sutton Coldfield power station supplied electricity to the town from 1901 to 1959. It was closed in 1959 when it had a generating capacity of 1.0 MW.
Holy Trinity Church, Sutton Coldfield Holy Trinity Parish Church is the parish church of Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham. It is Grade I listed and gives its name to the ward in which it stands, Sutton Trinity.
Visit Wylde Green plaques
14 plaques hereWylde Green has 14 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Wylde 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 Wylde Green using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Wylde Green plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Wylde Green audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Wylde Green allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Wylde Green’s 86 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Wylde Green freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Wylde Green Map App
Our visit Wylde Green map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Wylde 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 Wylde Green tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Wylde Green centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Wylde Green area at LONG:-1.816667, LAT:52.533333.
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Things to do & visit in Wylde Green / surrounding areas
● Mothers (music venue) ● Erdington ● Erdington Abbey ● Lad in the Lane ● Stockland Green ● Gravelly Hill ● All Saints’ Church, Gravelly Hill ● St Mark’s Church, Stockland Green ● Tracline 65 ● Short Heath, Birmingham ● Brookvale Park Lake ● Short Heath Park ● Esso Birmingham Terminal ● Brookvale Park ● Perry Common ● Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity and St Luke ● Highbury Theatre ● River Rea ● Witton Lakes ● Bromford Viaduct ● Emmanuel Church, Wylde Green ● Boldmere St. Michaels F.C. ● 2019–20 Aston Villa W.F.C. season ● Boldmere ● Wylde Green ● St Mary’s Church, Pype Hayes ● Tyburn, West Midlands ● Pype Hayes ● Sutton Vesey (ward) ● St Mary and St Margaret’s Church, Castle Bromwich
● Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens ● Castle Bromwich Hall ● Bromwich Castle ● Pype Hayes Park ● Castle Bromwich ● Pype Hayes Hall ● British Industries Fair ● Fort Dunlop ● Sentinel (sculpture) ● West Midlands (county) ● Castle Bromwich Aerodrome ● New Oscott ● Castle Vale Shopping Centre ● Castle Vale Town F.C. ● Castle Bromwich Assembly ● Witton Isolation Hospital ● Park Hall Nature Reserve ● Castle Vale ● Castle Bromwich Rural District ● Oscott (ward) ● Birmingham and Fazeley Canal ● Plantsbrook Local Nature Reserve ● Minworth ● Driffold ● OpenStreetMap Foundation ● Walmley ● New Hall Manor Estate ● Thimble End ● Sutton New Hall (ward) ● New Hall Manor ● New Hall Valley Country Park ● Peddimore Hall ● New Hall Estate ● Langley Hall, West Midlands ● Romulus F.C. ● Sutton Coldfield Town F.C. ● Paget Rangers F.C. ● West Bromwich Albion F.C. Women ● Sutton Trinity (ward) ● Falcon Lodge ● Holy Trinity Church, Sutton Coldfield ● Sutton Coldfield ● Good Hope Hospital ● Tudor Hill ● Sutton Coldfield rail crash ● Sutton Coldfield Town Hall ● Moat House, Sutton Coldfield ● St Barnabas’ Church, Erdington ● Bleak Hill Park ● Birches Green ● Salford Junction ● Bromford ● Bromford Bridge Racecourse ● Penns Hall
Getting to / around Wylde Green – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Wylde Green using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Wylde Green places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Wylde Green Public Transport Stations
Wylde Green Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Erdington railway station
Gravelly Hill railway station
Chester Road railway station
Bromford Bridge railway station
Castle Bromwich railway station
Fort Parkway railway station
Wylde Green railway station
Penns railway station
Sutton Coldfield power station
Sutton Coldfield railway station
Sutton Park railway station
Sutton Coldfield Town railway station
Orphanage Road
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Local Wylde Green historians & Wylde Green tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Wylde Green? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Wylde 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 Wylde 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 Wylde 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 Wylde 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-Wylde Green’ web pages (for example: www.visitWylde 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