In the churchyard here are the graves of two railwaymen, Tom Scaife and Joseph Rutherford who were killed when their steam locomotive blew up while climbing the steepest mainline railway gradient in England, at the nearby Lickey Incline, on 10 November 1840.

The suburb is located in a triangle formed by Rubery and the Bristol Road South to the north and north west, the former MG Rover car factory to the south east and the Lickey Hills and Cofton Hackett Park just south.

The popular rural Lickey Hills Country Park is half a mile south of Rednal, with Rednal Hill being the nearest peak.

Running along the west side of Lickey Road, between Leach Green Lane and past Edgewood Road, is a medieval hedge whose age is estimated to be over 700 years old.

The Lickey Hills area is of significant geological interest due to the range and age of the rocks.

The suburb is adjacent to rural Worcestershire and a number of public footpaths allow open access to the surrounding fields up to Hopwood, Cofton Hackett and the Lickey Hills.

The village is most famous for the Tardebigge Locks, a flight of 36 canal locks that raise the Worcester and Birmingham Canal over 220 feet ( 67 metres ) over the Lickey Ridge.

The Lickey Incline is the steepest sustained main-line railway incline in Great Britain.

The Lickey Incline, south of Birmingham, is the steepest sustained main-line railway incline in Great Britain.

The Lickey Incline is the steepest sustained adhesion-worked gradient on a British standard gauge railway.

Lickey Hills Country Park is a country park in England.

The Lickey Hills area is of significant geological interest due to the range and age of the rocks.

The park is situated in the Lickey Hills range, which is part of the Clent and Lickey ridge.

On the road from Lickey to Lickey Beacon there is an obelisk folly commemorating Other Archer Windsor, 6th Earl of Plymouth, who created the Worcestershire Yeomanry volunteer regiment of cavalry, which fought in the Napoleonic Wars.

On the other side of the valley is Romsley Hill, the valley banks of which are covered by Great Farley Wood beyond Romsley Hill are a number of lower hills ( Windmill, Chapman's and Waseley ) which join the Clent Hills to the Lickey Hills in one continuous chain.

Lickey is a village in the north of Worcestershire, England approximately south west from the centre of Birmingham.

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.

The name of the village of Lickey is thought to have derived from ' leac ' ( a clearing ) and ' hey ' ( an enclosed space ), perhaps referring to a clearing in the forest.

The Monument, a 60 – 80 ft tall obelisk, is situated behind the trees bordering the old Birmingham road directly opposite the petrol station in Lickey.

Lickey End is a village in the Bromsgrove District of Worcestershire, England.

Looking to consolidate a number of small sites around Birmingham, and diversify into new areas, they choose a series of 20 agricultural fields to the south of the city in Longbridge, on a site bounded by: Lickey Road ; Lowhill Lane ; the Midland Railway's main Birmingham to Gloucester mainline ; and the Halesowen Joint Railway with the Great Western Railway.

2000 new homes are due to be built on various parts of the site ; the first development along Lickey Lane called Park View due to its proximity of Cofton Park, had government approval for home start funding to construct the first of 115 homes on the site.

It was found that the roundabout at the junction of Bristol Road and Lickey Lane caused traffic to slow down at this point, and it was decided, along with the road access and other associated roadworks with the new town centre and college, that Bristol Road South would be realigned to incorporate a smooth curve, keeping the traffic moving.

By 1910 he was sufficiently wealthy to move from Birmingham, with his wife, two daughters and his son, to his new home, Lickey Grange, where he spent the rest of his life.

Two 2-2-2 engines were built by the railway's engineer James McConnell in 1844, then he obtained the directors ' permission to build a new locomotive for the Lickey Incline.

The only exception to this was its 0-10-0 banking engine for Lickey Incline on its Bristol-Birmingham line.

A quarry cutting on Bilberry Hill showing the layers of Lickey Quartzite.

The natural heath land had grown on a flatter area between the nearby Lickey Hills and Redhill.

Visible from Barr Beacon are the Lickey Hills, Clent Hills, Malvern Hills, Turners Hill near Tividale, Clee Hills, Long Mynd, The Wrekin, Cannock Chase, Hednesford Hills, Peak District, Sutton Park, and on very clear days, Beacon Hill, Loughborough.

In 1917 the Austin Aero Company built an airfield right next to Rednal, just on the other side the Lickey Road and north east of Cofton Hackett Park.

Most younger children attend Rednal Hill Junior School on Irwin Avenue or the nearby Lickey Hills Primary School on the Old Birmingham Road, with its teaching staff of 40.

The natural heath land had grown on a flatter area between the nearby Lickey Hills and Redhill.

The EWS fleet includes five locomotives capable of banking heavy trains over the Lickey Incline — on these specific locomotives, the knuckle coupler has been modified to allow remote releasing from inside the cab, whilst in motion.

A number of Norris locomotives were imported into England for use on the Birmingham and Bristol Railway since, because of the Lickey Incline, British manufacturers declined to supply.

An elaborate toposcope on Beacon Hill in the Lickey Hills near Birmingham, UK

It was designed by James Clayton for banking duties on the Lickey Incline in Worcestershire ( south of Birmingham ), England.

They largely went out of use with the introduction of advanced braking systems and diesel and electric locomotives, although banking on the Lickey Incline continues into 2010 with class 66 diesel electric locomotives being used for the task.

The other banking turns on the Lickey were operated by Midland Railway 2441 Class, LMS Fowler Class 3F 0-6-0Ts, and GWR 9400 Class pannier tanks often in pairs, operation being controlled by a complicated system of whistle codes.

* The LNER Class U1 Beyer-Garratt banker from the Woodhead Route was tried unsuccessfully on the Lickey in the mid-1950s.

The first evidence of people settling in the Lickey Hills date back to the stone age when a Neolithic hunter lost a flint arrow head on Rednal Hill.

A quarry cutting on Bilberry Hill showing the layers of Lickey Quartzite.

On the return journey, these freight trains, as all loaded freight trains on the route, require banking assistance on the infamous Lickey Incline, a service which is undertaken by the freight company EWS, with one of their dedicated pool of Class 66 locomotives, dutifully waiting on call at Bromsgrove.