Birches Green
Birches Green (52°30′56″N 1°49′42″W / 52.5155°N 1.8284°WCoordinates: 52°30′56″N 1°49′42″W / 52.5155°N 1.8284°W) is a small area of Tyburn in Birmingham, England. It is located between Gravelly Hill and Bromford.
The first mention of Birches Green dates from the 17th century and it may be named after the Birch family who lived in the area in the early 1600s. The green was located at the junction of the present day Kingsbury Road and Spring Lane (now the location of Ardenleigh and an entrance to Rookery Park.
Historically Birches Green was part of Aston parish and consisted mostly of farmland, the farm being located at the junction of Kingsbury Road and Hall Road which survived until 1920. Birches Green is now mostly a residential area. In the early 1900s the city council considered building a gas works in Birches Green on the site of the Glenthorne estate but these plans did not come to fruition and instead a housing estate was built.
Glenthorne Youth Treatment Centre, which opened in 1978, provided long-term care for children aged between 12 and 18 who were "severely disturbed and disruptive" and was referred to in the media as "Britain's toughest jail for young offenders". The centre was built on the site of a large Victorian house called Glenthorne, built by a Mr Yates in 1877 though by 1908 it had already become a private asylum.
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