It had a population of 29, 237 in 2001 ( 39, 644 in the wider Bromsgrove / Catshill urban area ) with a small ethnic minority and is in Bromsgrove District.

Forest law was removed from the Bromsgrove area in 1301 in the reign of Henry III, when the boundaries were moved back.

Stoke Heath is an area in the south of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England.

The name was original nord feld, an Anglo-Saxon phrase and Northfield was probably named because the area is to the north of Bromsgrove.

Birmingham is unparished, apart from New Frankley, its only civil parish, which was established in 2000 in an area transferred from Bromsgrove in 1995, and which had previously been part of the Frankley parish.

It was established in 2000 in an area in the south-west of the city south of Bartley Reservoir ( map ), transferred from Bromsgrove ( and thus also from Worcestershire to the West Midlands ) in 1995, which had previously been part of the Frankley parish.

The parish borders Frankley parish in Bromsgrove District to the north, the unparished area of Birmingham to the east, the unparished area of Rubery to the south, and Romsley parish to the west.

This led to ( apart from in the east, with Coventry and the Meriden Gap ) quite a tightly defined metropolitan border, excluding such places as Burntwood, Bromsgrove, Cannock, Kidderminster, Lichfield and Wombourne which had been considered for inclusion in the West Midlands metropolitan area by the Redcliffe-Maud Report, but excluding only a small amount that was considered part of the contiguous built-up area of the West Midlands conurbation in 2001.

It covers the same area as Bromsgrove District Council, North Worcestershire with its twenty parishes.

It lies in Bromsgrove District and is situated on the Lickey Ridge, amongst the Lickey Hills, its proximity to countryside and the city makes it a popular commuter area.

Lydiate Ash is a hamlet, consisting of a few houses and the road gritting depot for Bromsgrove District Council. area of North Worcestershire, England.

The eldest of seven children, Housman was born at Valley House in Fockbury, a hamlet on the outskirts of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, to Sarah Jane ( née Williams, married 17 Jun 1858 in Woodchester, Gloucester ) and Edward Housman ( whose family came from Lancaster ), and was baptized on 24 Apr 1859 at Christ Church, in Catshill.

Housman was educated first at King Edward's School, Birmingham, then Bromsgrove School, where he acquired a strong academic grounding and won prizes for his poetry.

The son of an optician, he was educated at Scarborough College and Bromsgrove School, before training as an actor at RADA.

Laurence Housman was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, one of seven children who included the poet A. E. Housman and writer Clemence Housman.

Milligan was in a relationship until 1992 with Julie Kirkbride, a Daily Telegraph journalist who later served as Conservative MP for Bromsgrove from 1997 until 2010.

The route of the M42 was decided as early as 1972 but, due to planning delays, the short section of the M42 north of Bromsgrove did not open until 1989.

In 1987 the section to the A38 at Bromsgrove, some south of Birmingham was completed.

After the conquest, Bromsgrove was held by the King.

Bromsgrove, along with all the towns in north Worcestershire, was committed to defending the city of Worcester and is recorded to have contributed burgesses to Droitwich in 1086.

Bromsgrove was first granted the right to a market day in 1200, and in 1317 was given the right hold a Tuesday market and three day fair every 29 August at the Decollation of St John the Baptist.

In the later Middle Ages, Bromsgrove was a centre for the wool trade.

At one point Bromsgrove was the world centre of nail making.

The Bromsgrove Union Workhouse, on the Birmingham Road, was opened in 1838 and closed in 1948 and is in use as an office building today.

In 1841, Bromsgrove railway works was established.

Bromsgrove was home for many years to the world-famous " Bromsgrove Guild ", a company of craftsmen who produced many fine works of sculpture, ironwork, etc., including the gates of Buckingham Palace ( whose locks are stamped with the Guild's name ), the lifts on the Lusitania and the famous statue adorning the Fortune Theatre in Drury Lane.

Bromsgrove constituency was last represented by Labour by Terry Davies, who defeated Conservative Hal Miller as the result of 10. 1 % swing in a by-election in 1971.

Miller was elected to the new Bromsgrove and Redditch constituency in 1974, and represented Bromsgrove constituency from 1983 to 1992.

GKN acquired another fastener manufacturer, F. W. Cotterill Ltd., in 1919: Cotterill already owned a subsidiary named J. W. Garrington, which specialised in forgings, and it was the forgings produced at the Garrington Darlaston plant, later supplemented by a large plant at Bromsgrove, that enabled GKN to become a major supplier of crankshafts, connecting rods, half-shafts and numerous smaller forged components to the UK auto-industry during and beyond the period of massive expansion between the two world wars.

She was the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for the Conservative stronghold of Bromsgrove from 1997 until 2010

Results under Brown did improve but Bromsgrove finished the season in 13th place with rumours continuing to circulate about the club's future.

Born in Birmingham, Jones was educated at Bromsgrove School where he was Head Boy, and read Law at University College London under a University Cadetship from the Royal Navy, graduating with upper second class honours.

It operates under a license granted by Bromsgrove School in Bromsgrove, near Birmingham, UK in 2004.

Kings Norton derives its name from the Norman period, meaning ' north farmland or settlement ' belonging to or held by the king, when Kings Norton was part of the King's forest in the district of Bromsgrove.

In Norman times Rednal and the Lickeys formed part of the royal manor of Bromsgrove and were set aside as a royal hunting forest.

In Norman times the Lickeys formed part of the royal manor of Bromsgrove and were set aside as a royal hunting forest.

An older name for the same crossroads, where the road from King's Norton to Harborne ( now represented by Oak Tree / Harborne Lanes ) met the Bromsgrove to Birmingham road ( now the Bristol Road ), appears to have been Selly Cross ; at least this is what it was called during the 16th century when it was recorded as Selley Crosse in 1549 and Selley Cross in 1506.

West Heath was mentioned in the manorial court roll of Bromsgrove and Kings Norton in 1267 when it was recorded that " Richard de Coſton has a purpresture ( i. e. an enclosure of tenants land or an enclosure of waste land ) upon Westhethe, Richard de Coſton holds four acres in Westhethe and does nothing in service to the King.

Bromsgrove were 1 – 0 up with just two minutes of time remaining, when Barnsley scored two late goals to end up winners.

Bromsgrove station will be added as a southern terminus when electrification is extended there from Barnt Green.

Historically, in the Middle Ages West Heath was part of the upper division of Halfshire Hundred that also contained Bromsgrove, Coston Hackett, Dodderhill, Doverdale, Droitwich, Elmbridge, Feckenham, Hadsor, Hampton Lovet, Kington, Kings Norton, Northfield, Salwarpe, Tardebigge and Upton Warren.

Historically, Cofton Hackett was part of the upper division of Halfshire Hundred that also contained Bromsgrove, Dodderhill, Doverdale, Droitwich, Elmbridge, Feckenham, Hadsor, Hampton Lovet, Kington, Kings Norton, Northfield, Salwarpe, Tardebigge and Upton Warren.

Several bus routes serve Feckenham from Bromsgrove, Droitwich, Evesham, Kidderminster, and Redditch ( Walkwood ). The National Cycle Network Route 5 can be reached around north of the village. The nearest Airport is Birmingham International Airport.