West Midlands County in the UK is a Top Travelers Delight
The West Midlands is an inland county that joins the borders of the counties of Staffordshire in the north, Worcestershire in the south and Warwickshire in the east. It is the most urbanised counties in the UK with Birmingham, the Black Country, Solihull and Wolverhampton together are the most populated in the UK except London. The whole of the West Midlands is not fully urban, Coventry is spaced apart from the West Midlands collection by a path of green belt land that measures around 15 miles across famous as the Meriden Gap, which possesses a strong rural quality. A much smaller part of green belt that comes between Birmingham, Walsall and West Bromwich does have Barr Beacon and Sandwell Valley.
Turners Hill is the tallest point in the West Midlands, with a height of 269 m or 876 ft. The hills attraction is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Barr Beacon is another beautiful hill in the West Midlands, on the border of Birmingham and Walsall. 23 Sites of Special Scientific Interest exist in the county. One of these is Sutton Park in Sutton Coldfields that has a National Nature Reserve status and a large area of 900.1 hectares or 2224.2 acres or 9 sq km. So, it is one of the biggest urban parks in Europe and the vastest outside a capital city in Europe.
Several rivers that pass through the county, the main being River Tame. The river basin is urbanized around 42% making it the most urbanized basin of UK. Many rivers feed the River Tame. Both the River Sowe and River Sherbourne pass Coventry. A River Stour moves in the west of the West Midlands county.
Six universities are situated in the West Midlands, Wolverhampton University is located in Wolverhampton with its campuses in Telford and Walsall, while Aston University, the University of Birmingham and Birmingham City University are all located in Birmingham. Coventry University and the University of Warwick are situated at Coventry.
The and Newman College and Birmingham College of Food, Tourism Creative Studies, both in Birmingham, were granted university college status in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Both colleges altered their names and both joined hands and promised to become Birmingham’s fourth university.
Sutton Coldfield College became a sixth form college in Britain after a merger of North Birmingham College in 2003 and Josiah Mason College in August 2006. Many sports are played at the West Midlands and in football, there are West Midlands big six league teams in the county such as Aston Villa, West Bromwich Albion, Birmingham City, Walsall, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Coventry City.
It also houses a Warwickshire County Cricket Club, that resides in Edgbaston Cricket Ground, where many Tests and One Day Internationals are hosted. Birmingham Bullets were replaced by Birmingham Panthers basketball team, presently are based at a facility that is provided by the University of Wolverhampton in Walsall. The county has retained many rugby clubs like a Moseley Rugby Football Club, Stourbridge RFC, Walsall RFC, Dudley Kingswinford RFC, Coventry RFC and Birmingham and Solihull RFC.
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