Smethwick
Smethwick is a Town in the county of West Midlands.
Smethwick postcode: B66 4
There are great places to visit near Smethwick including some great towns, shopping centres, castles, cities, canals, country parks, woodlands, parks, historic buildings, villages, museums, gardens, nature reserves, lakes and airports.
The area around Smethwick boasts some of the best towns including Dudley, Stourbridge, Moseley, Handsworth, Harborne, Sutton Coldfield, and West Bromwich.
There are a several good shopping centres in the Smethwick area like Merry Hill, and Bullring & Grand Central.
The area around Smethwick boasts some of the best castles including Dudley Castle, and Caluden Castle (ruin).
Smethwick has some unmissable cities nearby like Birmingham, and Coventry.
Birmingham to Wolverhampton Canal is a great place to visit close to Smethwick if you like canals.
Don't miss Lickey Hills Country Park, Woodgate Valley Country Park, Sutton Park, Kingsbury Water Park, Sandwell Valley Country Park, Coombe Country Park, and Coombe Abbey Country Park's country parks if visiting the area around Smethwick.
There are a several good woodlands in the Smethwick area like Lickey Hills Country Park, and Walsall Arboretum.
The area around Smethwick features a number of interesting parks including Cannon Hill Park, Grove Park, Caludon Castle Park, Baddesley Clinton, Elmdon Park, and Walsall Arboretum.
Smethwick has some unmissable historic buildings nearby like Victoria Square - Birmingham, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Selly Manor Museum, Baddesley Clinton, St Alphege Parish Church, and Packwood House.
Don't miss Bournville, and Lea Marston's villages if visiting the area around Smethwick.
Smethwick's best nearby museums can be found at Selly Manor Museum, and Cadbury World.
Don't miss The Birmingham Botanical Gardens's gardens if visiting the area around Smethwick.
Nature Reserves to visit near Smethwick include Moseley Bog, RSPB Sandwell Valley, and Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve.
Pendigo Lake, Cocks Close Pond, Kingsbury Water Park, and Earlswood Lakes are great places to visit near Smethwick if you like lakes.
Don't miss Birmingham Airport's airports if visiting the area around Smethwick.
Smethwick History
There are some historic monuments around Smethwick:
Places to see near Smethwick
History of Smethwick
One notable company was The London Works, manufacturing base of the Fox Henderson Company which made the steel framework for the Crystal Palace. This was founded by Charles Fox, whose inventions included the first patented railway points. His notable employees included William Siemens, the notable mechanical and electrical engineer. The company was bankrupted in 1855 by the failure of an overseas railway to pay for work done. The site was later used by the GKN company. In 2015 the site was being cleared to build the new Midland Metropolitan Hospital which aims to combine the Sandwell General Hospital at West Bromwich and City Hospital, Dudley Road. Work at the site has come to a standstill because of the crisis in the building industry.
