Hotels in Birmingham

Why not go on vacation to the super English city of Birmingham. You may need a hotel to stay in while you are there. Maybe you want to buy, rent, sell, hire, loan, purchase a room in the city. Maybe you are going there to work short term and need a short term room.

Birmingham is situated just to the west of the geographical centre of England on the Birmingham Plateau, an area of relatively high ground, ranging around 500 to 1,000 feet above sea level and crossed by Britain's main north-south watershed between the basins of the Rivers Severn and Trent. To the south and west of the city lie the Lickey Hills, Clent Hills and Walton Hill, which reach 1,033 feet and have extensive views over the city. Birmingham is located in the centre of the West Midlands region of England.

Geology

Geologically, Birmingham is dominated by the Birmingham Fault which runs diagonally through the city from the Lickey Hills in the south west, passing through Edgbaston, the Bull Ring and Erdington, to Sutton Coldfield in the north east. To the south and east of the fault the ground is largely softer Keuper Marl, interspersed with beds of Bunter pebbles and crossed by the valleys of the Rivers Tame, Rea and Cole along with their tributaries. Much of this would have been laid down during the Permian and Triassic eras. To the north and west of the fault, varying from 150 to 600 feet higher than the surrounding area and underlying much of the city centre, lies a long ridge of harder Keuper Sandstone.

Much of the area now occupied by the city was originally a northern reach of the ancient Forest of Arden, whose former presence can still be felt in the city's dense oak tree-cover and in the large number of districts such as Moseley, Saltley and Hockley with names ending in "-ley": an Anglo-Saxon word meaning woodland clearing.
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Places of interest in the city :

ArtsFest, Aston Hall, BCN Main Line, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham Canal Navigations, Birmingham Walk of Stars, Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, Birmingham Botanical Gardens,Cadbury World, Birmingham, Digbeth Branch Canal, Edgbaston Pool, Edgbaston Reservoir, Gas Street Basin, Grand Prix Karting, Harborne Reserve, International Project Space, Kingfisher Country Park, Lifford Reservoir, Lunar Society Moonstones, Moseley Bog, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery,Museum of the Jewellery Quarter,National Sea Life Centre (Birmingham), Birmingham Nature Centre, Perry Hall Park, Birmingham Proof House, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists,Shard End Lake, St. Mary's Church, Handsworth,Three White Walls Gallery, Victoria Square, Birmingham, Winterbourne Botanic Garden, Witton Lakes, Worcester and Birming

The city has played an important part in the history of sport. It was the first city to be named National City of Sport by the Sports Council. It is home to two of the country's oldest professional football teams: Aston Villa (1874) and Birmingham City (1875). Aston Villa won club football's most coveted prize, the European Cup, in 1982. The Birmingham derby is an event in which the two football clubs play against each other.

Traces of medieval Birmingham can be seen in the oldest churches, notably the original parish church, St Martin in the Bull Ring. A few other buildings from the medieval and Tudor periods survive, among them The Lad In The Lane and The Old Crown, the 15th century Saracen's Head public house and Old Grammar School in Kings Norton and Blakesley Hall.