Stirchley, West Midlands

Stirchley is a district in the south west of Birmingham, England. It has a linear retail centre located along the Pershore Road Corridor (A441). The River Rea, which flows through the area, once powered mills at Lifford, Hazelwell, Dogpool and Moor Green and is now a walking and cycle route. The Worcester and Birmingham Canal, followed by the railways, once brought considerable industry to the area. New residential developments are now established alongside the long-standing Victorian terracing which is associated with the suburb. The restoration of the former Stirchley Baths to create a new community hub was opened in January 2016.

The area is served by Stirchley Library: Stirchley Library.Stirchley Website

Stirchley belongs to the Bournville Ward, which is represented by three Councillors: Tim Huxtable (Con), Rob Seeley (Con) and Phil Walkling (Lab). Bournville is in the Parliamentary Constituency of Selly Oak represented by Steve McCabe (Lab). Until the Local Provisional Order Bill came into effect on 9 November 1911 the area was administered by the King’s Norton and Northfield Urban District Council in the East Worcestershire (UK Parliament constituency) represented by Austen Chamberlain. The event, known as the Greater Birmingham Act, required the ancient county boundaries of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire to be changed. The former county boundary was the Bourn Brook which separates Edgbaston (Warwickshire), from Selly Oak (Worcestershire). Slightly more than 22,000 acres of Worcestershire was transferred to Warwickshire in the extension of the administrative area of Birmingham, and this has grown further with the creation of New Frankley. Nearly 50% of modern Birmingham was formerly in Worcestershire or Staffordshire. The Evolution of Worcestershire county boundaries since 1844 is complex as a number of enclaves and exclaves were adjusted. Documentary references need to be researched under the county of origin. An editorial note in the VCH Warwickshire Volume 7 Birmingham refers to the special difficulties created by the change of the county boundaries and states that: "Accounts of the ancient parishes of King’s Norton, Northfield, and Yardley, and the parish of Quinton (in the ancient parish of Halesowen), now within the boundaries of the city, are contained in Volume III of the History of Worcestershire."

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