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City Centre Telford
Telford
~5.68 miles from Norton city center
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City Centre Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton
~11.53 miles from Norton city center
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Wolverhampton Railway Train Station
Wolverhampton
~11.92 miles from Norton city center
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Wolverhampton railway station in Wolverhampton, West Midlands is on the West Coast Main Line. It is served by London Midland, CrossCountry, Virgin Trains, Wrexham & Shropshire and Arriva Trains Wales.
The first station on this site was opened in 1852 by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR). The only visible remnant of the original station is the Queen's Building, the gateway to Railway Drive which was the approach road to the station, which nowadays is a cafeteria serving Wolverhampton bus station. Three years later the Great Western Railway (GWR) opened a second station, located behind the older station on lower ground, which became known as the Wolverhampton Low Level station, the other becoming known as Wolverhampton High Level.
Prior to nationalisation in 1948, Wolverhampton...
http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/transport_streets/public_transport/trains/station.htm
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Black Country Museum
Dudley
~14.82 miles from Norton city center
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The Black Country Living Museum (formerly The Black Country Museum) is an open-air museum of rebuilt historic buildings, located in Dudley in the West Midlands of England. The museum occupies a 105,000 square metres (26 acres) urban heritage park in the shadow of Dudley Castle in the centre of the Black Country conurbation. It was first opened in 1978, on land partly reclaimed from a former railway goods yard, disused lime kilns and former coal pits; and since then many more exhibits have been added to it.
The Museum preserves some notable buildings from around the Black Country, mainly in a specially built village. Most of the buildings are original, relocated from their original sites. As a living museum, these form a base from which volunteers portray life in the nineteenth and early...
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West Midland Safari Park
Worchestershire
~16.03 miles from Norton city center
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http://www.wmsp.co.uk/
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City Centre Kidderminster
Kidderminster
~16.07 miles from Norton city center
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City Centre Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury
~16.51 miles from Norton city center
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Oak House
Birmingham
~17.69 miles from Norton city center
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Oak House is the largest Halls of Residence in the Fallowfield Campus and the second largest of all the residences owned by The University of Manchester.
The halls consists of 1083 rooms, divided into 136 self-catered flats and then subdivided into five courts of varying sizes, the largest being Beech, then Sycamore, Maple, Chestnut (the only court offering washbasins in bedrooms) and finally Holly.
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City Centre Stafford
Staffordshire
~18.61 miles from Norton city center
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Woodgate Valley Country Park
Birmingham
~20.16 miles from Norton city center
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Woodgate Valley Country Park is a Country Park within the Bartley Green and Quinton districts of Birmingham. Other Birmingham Country Parks are, Sutton Park and Lickey Hills Country Park. The park is maintained as a Wildlife habitat but also has farm animals.
The Country Park was set up in 1984 having previously been rural land with smallholdings and larger farms. It comprises some 450 acres (182 hectares) and is on land previously threatened by urban development.
The park is maintained with varied wild life habitats. There are hedgerows, meadows and woodland, plus Bourn Brook. More than 80 species of bird, including Marsh Harrier, Long-eared Owl and Kingfisher; and 250 species of plants including Common Bluebells, Foxgloves and Honeysuckle, have been recorded, as have butterflies in...
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Ludlow Castle
Ludlow
~20.92 miles from Norton city center
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Ludlow Castle is a large, now partly ruined, non-inhabited castle which dominates the town of Ludlow in Shropshire, England. It stands on a high point overlooking the River Teme.[2] The castle is owned by The Trustees of the Powis Castle Estate on behalf of the family of the Earl of Powis, and is open to the public.
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Edgbaston Reservoir
Birmingham
~21.42 miles from Norton city center
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Edgbaston Reservoir, originally known as Rotton Park Reservoir, is a canal feeder reservoir in the Ladywood district of Birmingham, England.
Originally a smaller fish stock pool named Roach Pool in Rotton Park it was extensively enlarged by Thomas Telford between 1824-1829 to supply water to the Birmingham and Wolverhampton Levels of the Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) canal system via Icknield Port Loop. It was excavated to a depth of 40 feet (12 m) and covers an area of 80 acres (32.37 ha), holding 300 million gallons (1,136 million litres) of water. It is supplied by small streams and a feeder from Titford Reservoir (Titford Pools) in Oldbury. It was formed by damming a small stream. The dam is a 330 metre long earth embankment with a height of 10 metres near the centre.
The reserv...
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Birmingham Peace Pagoda (Dhamma Talaka Peace Pagoda)
Birmingham
~21.47 miles from Norton city center
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The Pagoda is an oriental style of sacred tower. In Buddhism, it is called a cedi (caitya or stupa in Sanskrit). The Pagoda symbolizes peace, compassion and the noble exemplary qualities of the Buddha. It is the earthly manifestation of the mind of the Buddha and, as such, stands as the prime symbol of Buddhism for all Buddhist traditions. Birmingham is becoming an international city, rich with a multitude of religions, races and cultures. Apart from a variety of churches, there are now beautiful mosques, Hindu Temples and Sikh gurdwaras in the city. However, there is no Buddhist site of architectural beauty yet. This is one reason for looking forward to building the Pagoda. This will add to the city's growing cultural merit and interest to tourists from all over the world.
The Birmingh...
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Alexander Stadium
Walsall Road West Bromwich - 0121 464 8008
~21.50 miles from Norton city center
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Alexander Stadium, situated within the Perry Barr district, is Birmingham's premier athletics venue.
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/alexander.bcc
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Perrott's Folly (The Observatory)
Birmingham
~21.64 miles from Norton city center
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From 1884 to 1979 the tower was used as a weather recording station for the Birmingham and Midland Institute. In 1966 the Geography Department of the University of Birmingham took over the running of the observatory until operations were transferred to the main campus.
It has been suggested, but not proven, that the towers of Perrott's Folly and Edgbaston Waterworks may have influenced references to towers in the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien, who lived nearby as a child.
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Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Birmingham
~21.83 miles from Norton city center
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The Birmingham Botanical Gardens are botanical gardens situated in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. The gardens are close to the centre of Birmingham and open every day of the year, from sunrise to sunset. They are located at grid reference SP049854.
They were designed in 1829 by J. C. Loudon, a leading garden planner, horticultural journalist and publisher. The gardens opened in 1832.
The layout is recognisably Loudon's and, as he proposed, there is a conservatory at the top of the site. There is a lawn on the slope in front of the conservatory and a range of beds and shrubberies round its perimeter. In 1839, Loudon noted that "the trees and shrubs have thriven in an extraordinary degree". Overall, the character is that of a Victorian public park – with a bandstand set in 15 acres (6...
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Museum of the Jewellery Quarter
Birmingham
~21.95 miles from Norton city center
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The Museum of the Jewellery Quarter is a museum at Vyse Street in Hockley, Birmingham, England. It is a Community Museum, that is branch museum, of the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery.
For over 80 years the family-run firm of Smith & Pepper produced jewellery from the factory that is now the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter. When the elderly proprietors of the Smith & Pepper jewellery manufacturing firm decided to retire in 1981 they simply ceased trading and locked the door. Tools were left strewn on benches; grubby overalls were hung on the coat hooks; and dirty teacups were abandoned alongside jars of marmite and jam on the shelf. In the eighty years before its closure, little changed with the working practices or equipment used within the family-owned business.
The Museum has preserv...
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Birmingham Speedway
Birmingham
~21.96 miles from Norton city center
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The original 1 mile dirt oval was originally built as a horse track. The first race was a motorcycle race on October 7th, 1906. Autos used the 1 mile oval from October 10th, 1906 through 1917. A 1/2 mile dirt oval opened in 1932, and was used through July 4th, 1942. It reopened after WWII on October 1st, 1946, and operated until November 5th, 1961. A 1/4 mile dirt oval operated from 1958 to 1960. A 1/4 mile paved oval operated from about July 15th, 1960 through 1961. The modern 5/8 mile paved oval opened on June 28th, 1962.
This track has also operated as Fairgrounds Raceway, Birmingham Super Speedway, Birmhagham Super Raceway and Birmingham International Speedway.
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National Indoor Arena (NIA)
Birmingham
~22.12 miles from Norton city center
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The National Indoor Arena or The NIA is a large indoor arena and is owned by the NEC Group. It is situated in central Birmingham, England and was opened in 1991, as the largest indoor arena at the time in the UK. The NIA hosts a range of events ranging from sporting events, to musical concerts, and has a capacity to seat up to 12,700 using both permanent seating and temporary seating configurations.
The NIA is located alongside the Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line's Old Turn Junction and opposite the National Sea Life Centre in Brindleyplace. Close to the NIA, is The ICC which is also owned by the NEC Group.
The seating is arranged into upper-tier, lower-tier and flat floor seating sections. The lower-tier and flat floor sections are made up of removable seating whilst the upper-ti...
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Five Ways Clock
Birmingham
~22.20 miles from Norton city center
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One of a number of similar clocks dotted about the city, this neo-gothic cast-iron timepiece in dark green with gold details stands about 20 feet high. It is situated at Five Ways, a busy traffic island to the south-west of the city centre, and is close to the Joseph Sturge Memorial and the Marriott Hotel. And what's more, it generally tells the correct time.
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Red Palace
Birmingham
~22.22 miles from Norton city center
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The former H.B. Sale factory (grid reference SP067876), at 1-7 Constitution Hill, Birmingham, England, at the acute junction with Hampton Street, is a Grade II listed building. The red brick and terracotta structure is extremely thin, with a tower at one end.
It was designed in 1895 and 1896 by William Doubleday and James R. Shaw for H. B. Sale, a die-sinker that still occupies premises on Summer Lane within 100 metres of the original building. The original plans were for five stories, but only four were built. A fifth storey was added in the mid-20th century before planning laws were in force to protect the integrity of original structures and as a result, the fifth floor is not of the same architectural style of the 1895 building. The tower is original, built in 1896 as a memorial to Lo...
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Ikon Gallery
Birmingham
~22.25 miles from Norton city center
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The Ikon Gallery (grid reference SP060866) is an English gallery of contemporary art, located in Brindleyplace, Birmingham. It is housed in the Grade II listed, neo-gothic former Oozells Street Board School, designed by John Henry Chamberlain in 1877. The gallery's current director is Jonathan Watkins.
Ikon was set-up to encourage the public to engage in contemporary art. As a result of this, the gallery runs an off-site 'Education and Interpretation' scheme that educates audiences, promotes artists and their art. The gallery is open every day of the week except Mondays, though it opens on bank holiday Mondays.
Featured artworks include all forms of media including sound, sculpture and photography as well as paintings. Exhibitions rotate throughout the year so that as many pieces can be ...
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National Sea Life Centre
Birmingham England
~22.27 miles from Norton city center
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The National Sea Life Centre (grid reference SP059867) is an aquarium with over 60 displays of freshwater and marine life in Brindleyplace, Birmingham, England. Its one-million-litre ocean tank houses giant green sea turtles, blacktip reef sharks and tropical reef fish, with a fully transparent underwater tunnel. The building was designed by Sir Norman Foster.
It is located alongside the Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line Canal by Old Turn Junction and opposite the National Indoor Arena. It opened in spring 1996. In the Victorian era, the site was the location of two canal basins in Oozells Street Wharf.
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Chamberlain Clock
Birmingham
~22.30 miles from Norton city center
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The Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower (grid reference SP048835) is a campanile located in Chancellor's court at the University of Birmingham in the West Midlands of England. It is the tallest free-standing clock tower in the world,[1] although its actual height is the subject of some confusion. The university lists it as both 110 metres (361 ft)[2] and 325 feet (99 m) tall,[3] whereas other sources state that it is 100 metres (328 ft) tall.[1][4]
The tower was built to commemorate Joseph Chamberlain, the first Chancellor of the University, although one of the original suggested names for the clock tower was the 'Poynting Tower', after one of the earliest professors at the University, Professor John Henry Poynting. The nicknames Old Joe, Big Joe or simply The Clock Tower are used by ...
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University of Birmingham
Birmingham
~22.30 miles from Norton city center
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The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a British 'Redbrick' university located in the city of Birmingham, England. Founded in Edgbaston in 1900 as a successor to Mason Science College, and with origins dating back to the 1825 Birmingham Medical School, it was the first Redbrick university to gain official royal charter.
It is a member of the Russell Group of research universities and a founding member of Universitas 21. The student population includes around 16,500 undergraduate and 8,000 postgraduate students, making it the largest university in the West Midlands region. As of 2006-07 it is the fourth most popular English university by number of applications. The annual income of the institution for 2007-08 was £411.6 million, with an expenditure of £393.2 mil...
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St. Paul's Church
Birmingham
~22.33 miles from Norton city center
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St Paul’s, grid reference SP064874, is a church in the Georgian St Paul's Square in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, England.
The Grade I listed church was designed by Roger Eykyn of Wolverhampton. Building started in 1777, and the church was consecrated in 1779. It was built on land given by Charles Colmore from his Newhall estate. It was the church of Birmingham's early manufacturers and merchants - Matthew Boulton and James Watt had their own pews, which were bought and sold as commodities at that time.
It is a rectangular church, similar in appearance to St Martin-in-the-Fields, London. The spire was added in 1823 by Francis Goodwin.
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Birmingham Repertory Theatre (The Rep)
Birmingham
~22.34 miles from Norton city center
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Birmingham Repertory Theatre (commonly called Birmingham Rep or just The Rep) is a theatre and theatre company based on Centenary Square in Birmingham, England. It is one of the most influential companies in the history of the English Stage.
The Rep was founded by Barry Jackson in 1913 when the earlier touring 'Pilgrim Players' company opened a permanent home on Station Street (now the Old Rep). The theatre was opened on February 15, 1913 by Barry Jackson. The stated aim was to "serve an art instead of making that art serve a commercial purpose." and under Jackson the company quickly revolutionised English Theatre, promoting experimental productions and pioneering innovations such as performing Shakespeare in modern dress.
The Birmingham Civic Society played a critical role in saving...
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Symphony Hall
Birmingham
~22.37 miles from Norton city center
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Symphony Hall is a 2,262 seat concert venue located inside the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Birmingham, England. It was officially opened by the Queen in June 1991, although had been opened on April 15, 1991. It is home to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and hosts around 270 events a year. It was completed at a cost of £30 million. The hall's interior is modelled upon the Musikverein in Vienna and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. In addition to concerts, the venue is also used for community events, graduation ceremonies and conferences.
Symphony Hall's acoustic, widely considered one of the finest in the world, was designed by Percy Thomas Partnership and Renton Howard Wood Levin, (who together formed the Convention Centre Partnership for the ICC) with specialist help...
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International Convention Centre (ICC)
Birmingham
~22.39 miles from Norton city center
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The International Convention Centre (abbreviated to ICC) is a major conference venue in central Birmingham, England. The centre includes Symphony Hall and it faces Centenary Square. The building has another entrance leading to the canals of Birmingham. The Convention Quarter area, which includes Brindleyplace, is located directly opposite the building on the other side of the canal. It is part of the NEC group.
The building was designed by Percy Thomas Partnership and Renton Howard Wood Levin. The foundation stone was laid by Jacques Delors as a start of another 4 years and 5 months of construction. In all, over 1,500 workers helped construct the building. Over 60,000 cubic metres of concrete were used. The site was opened on June 12, 1991 by Queen Elizabeth II. Funds of £49.7 million wer...
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Lapworth Geology Museum
Birmingham
~22.42 miles from Norton city center
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The Lapworth Museum of Geology is a major geological museum run by the University of Birmingham in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England.
The museum is located within the Grade II listed, Aston Webb Building, which retains the original Edwardian features. The museum has a history which dates back 1880. Named after Charles Lapworth, an English geologist, the museum houses over 250,000 specimens as well as geological maps, equipment, models, photographic material, and also zoological specimens and stone axes. Also in Lapworth's name is the Lapworth Archive, a detailed and extensive archive of his work housed within the Lapworth museum. The museum materials provide an invaluable teaching aid for the university's geology students.
Many specimens are from the Midlands as well as the rest of the Unit...
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