Quinton is a suburb on the western edge of Birmingham, England. It borders on the Birmingham suburbs of Harborne and Bartley Green and the Black Country area of Warley, and is separated by the M5 motorway from the Black Country town of Halesowen. It covers an area of 4.8 sq km; its population was recorded in the 2001 UK census as 19,798, though its boundaries have since expanded slightly. The eastern parts of it were formerly known as Ridgeacre, with Quinto or "The Quinton" being the area now around the church. The city from above Centenary Square. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Inter. ... Harborne is an area of Birmingham, England. ... Bartley Green is an area of Birmingham, England. ... Warley was a county borough formed in 1966 by the combination of the existing county borough of Smethwick with the towns of Oldbury and Rowley Regis. ... This article concerns the M5 motorway in England. ... The Black Country is a loosely-defined area of conurbation to the north and west of Birmingham, and to the south and east of Wolverhampton in the English West Midlands, around the South Staffordshire coalfield. ... The town of Halesowen was until the thirteenth century known as Halas, but it was then gifted to a Welsh prince called Owen and became known has Halas-Owen, but in modern times it has always been called Halesowen. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... United Kingdom censuses are decennial - held every 10 years. ...

The Old Quinton area in the west of Quinton contains the highest point in Birmingham, and the top of the spire of the (Church of England) Christ Church is the highest point of any building in Birmingham. It is rumoured locally that the next highest point due easterly lies in the Ural mountains. The escarpment a little to the west also forms part of the national watershed. A modern spire on the Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, particularly a church tower. ... The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England, and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. ... Map of Ural Mountains The Ural Mountains (Russian: Уральские горы = Урал) also known simply as the Urals and as the Riphean Mountains in Greco-Roman antiquity, is a mountain range that runs roughly north and south through western Russia. ...

Before the Church was built, it was part of the ancient parish of Halesowen and was largely owned in medeival times by the wealthly abbey at Lapal near Halesowen.

Though this area (including the Christ Church and its associated primary school) dates back to the Victorian era, and Quinton was formally removed from Worcestershire and incorporated into Birmingham in 1909, it remained in character a village rather than a suburb until the large-scale housing development of the 1930s. The expanded Quinton of that time was fictionalised as "Tilton" by Francis Brett Young in his novel Mr & Mrs Pennington. Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Accession to the Throne, 20 June 1837) gave her name to the historic era The Victorian era of Great Britain is considered the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ... Worcestershire (pronounced ; abbreviated Worcs) is a county located in the West Midlands region of central England. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... // Events and trends The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. ... Francis Brett Young (June 29, 1884 - March 28, 1954) was a British novelist and poet. ...

Much of Quinton's housing consists of medium-sized semi-detached houses from this period. There is a concentration of low-rise council housing on the Woodgate Valley estate, and higher-rise blocks on the Welsh House Farm estate, though this was designated until 2004 as part of Harborne. The area is almost entirely residential, though there are typical small local service businesses and an office park has recently been developed on the Quinton Meadows site adjacent to the motorway. Harborne is an area of Birmingham, England. ... This article concerns the M5 motorway in England. ...

The largest open space is Woodgate Valley Country Park, through which the Bourne Brook flows, dividing Quinton from Bartley Green. Bartley Green is an area of Birmingham, England. ...

Quinton forms part of the Birmingham Edgbaston parliamentary constituency. Edgbaston constituency shown within Birmingham Birmingham Edgbaston is a constituency located in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham. ... A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ...

See also

• Quinton

Quinton is a suburb on the western edge of Birmingham, England. ...

External links

• Quinton Library