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Attractions near Westside
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This is a list of the attractions near this property that are featured on AboutBritain.com
It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all attractions near this property.
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National Sea Life Centre
(< 1 Mile)*
The National Sea Life Centre takes visitors on a spectacular undersea voyage with over 60 displays of freshwater and marine life, creating a wonderland for visitors of all ages. |
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Ikon Gallery
(< 1 Mile)*
Birmingham is home to one of Europe's premier venues for contemporary art, showing exciting, innovative and challenging artists. Since the early 60's Ikon Gallery has championed the work of living artists. |
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Birmingham Botanical Gardens & Glasshouses
(1 Mile)*
The Birmingham Botanical Gardens were opened in 1832. They were designed by JC Loudon, a leading garden planner, horticultural journalist and publisher. |
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Barber Institute of Fine Arts
(2 Miles)*
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts has the most outstanding collection of works of art assembled in Britain in the twentieth century and is one of the city of Birmingham's greatest cultural attractions. |
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Cadbury World
(3 Miles)*
Cadbury World has 14 different zones, a separate Museum, the World's Biggest Cadbury Shop and the Cadbury Café to cater for all your chocolate cravings! |
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Blakesley Hall
(4 Miles)*
Blakesley Hall has been carefully refurbished and restored. It was re-opened to the public on 4th May 2002. The Hall is a timber-framed farmhouse built, in 1590, by Richard Smalbroke a man of local importance. |
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Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens
(5 Miles)*
These gardens of some 10 acres, are a rare survival of formal garden design of the early 18th Century when gardens were an oasis of elegance and beauty, far removed from the hazardous and hostile world beyond their walls |
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Transport Museum Wythall
(7 Miles)*
The Transport Museum, Wythall was founded in 1977 and its three large halls house a broad collection of around 100 buses, coaches, fire engines and battery-electric vehicles from all parts of the Midlands and beyond. |
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Black Country Living Museum
(8 Miles)*
Discover a fascinating world when you visit Britain's friendliest open-air museum. Historic buildings from all around the Black Country have been moved and rebuilt at the Black Country Museum |
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Dudley Zoological Gardens
(8 Miles)*
At Dudley Zoological Gardens there's a chance to get close to some of the rarest animals in the world. |
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Towns near Westside
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Birmingham
(1 Mile)*
Birmingham is Britain's second largest city and is situated right in the heart of England. Friendly, bustling and thriving, Birmingham is one of our most visited cities and welcomes visitors all year long. |
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Smethwick
(3 Miles)*
Smethwick - From a rural community of farms and cottages, through the transformation of the Industrial Revolution to the bustling community of today - in many ways Smethwick is Sandwell in microcosm. |
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West Bromwich
(5 Miles)*
West Bromwich is the borough's largest town and is mentioned in the Doomsday Book of 1086. At the time Bromwich - 'the little village on the heath of broom' - was among the possessions of William Fitz-Ansculf, Baron of Dudley. |
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Oldbury
(5 Miles)*
Oldbury is at the centre of Sandwell, both geographically and as the site of the borough's Council House. The town dates from the 13th century, and for most of its history it was part of the parish of Halesowen in Worcestershire. |
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Rowley Regis
(6 Miles)*
The secret of Rowley Regis' success is its firm foundations. The Romans first came to the area 2,000 years ago, attracted by the hard rock of the Rowley Hills; the legacy of quarrying is still part of the local landscape. |
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Halesowen
(7 Miles)*
Halesowen is a town in the West Midlands, nine miles south west of Birmingham city centre and close to the M5 motorway. |
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Wednesbury
(7 Miles)*
Wednesbury is one of the oldest parts of Sandwell. The 'bury' part of the name indicates there may have been an Iron Age fort or 'beorg' on Church Hill as long ago as 200BC. |
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Tipton
(7 Miles)*
Little is known of Tipton's earliest history, the area was once part of the Royal Forest of Cannock, and records survive of land ownership in Norman times. By the 12th century there was a church (St. John's) and a moated manor house. |
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Netherton
(7 Miles)*
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Walsall
(8 Miles)*
Walsall is an important industrial town in the West Midlands, about 13 miles northwest of Birmingham city centre and close to the M6. |
