Warley Woods
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Warley Woods in 2013
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| Type | Public park |
| Location | Warley, Smethwick, Sandwell, West Midlands, England |
| Coordinates | 52°28′23″N 1°58′57″W / 52.47299°N 1.98260°WCoordinates: 52°28′23″N 1°58′57″W / 52.47299°N 1.98260°W |
| Area | 100 acres (40 ha) |
| Created | 1906 |
| Operated by | Warley Woods Community Trust |
| Designation | Grade II listed |
Warley Woods (sometimes known as Warley Park, or Warley Woods Park) is a 100-acre (40 ha)public park in the Warley district of Smethwick, in Sandwell, in the West Midlands of England, originally laid out by Humphry Repton. It has been grade II listed by English Heritage in their Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest since September 1994.
The park lies approximately 3 miles (5 km) west of the Birmingham City Centre and occupies a small valley north of the A456 road between Birmingham and Halesowen, just outside the city boundary.
Approximately one-third of the site is mature woodland. The western part of the park is given over to a nine-hole golf course. The small stream which once ran though the site is now filled in. The park holds a Green Flag Award.
The estate which now forms the park was purchased by Samuel Galton, Jr., then living at nearby Great Barr Hall, in the 1790s. At the time, it was in Worcestershire. He commissioned Humphry Repton to landscape the fields and ordered the building of a new house to designs by the architect, Robert Lugar, in gothic style. The house was occupied by his son Hubert, in 1819. The land was purchased by Birmingham City Council in 1902 and opened as a park in 1906.
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