Cheswick Green is a village and

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within the

Metropolitan Borough of Solihull The Metropolitan Borough of Solihull is a metropolitan borough in West Midlands county, England. It is named after its largest town, Solihull, from which Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council is based. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region ...

in the

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county of

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incorporating the hamlet of Illshaw Heath. The settlement lies approximately south west of

Solihull Solihull (, or ) is a market town and the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in West Midlands County, England. The town had a population of 126,577 at the 2021 Census. Solihull is situated on the River Blyth ...

town centre. The civil parish population as taken at the 2011 census was 2,197. It borders

Dickens Heath Dickens Heath is a large modern village and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the English county of West Midlands incorporating the much older hamlet of Whitlocks End. It was previously part of the civil parish of Hoc ...

and Monkspath to the north, and Earlswood and Warings Green to the south. The northernmost part of Warings Green lies in the parish of Cheswick Green.

Illshaw Heath

The hamlet of Illshaw heath, which predates Cheswick Green, was home of the de Yelschawe family from which it takes its name. There is an earthwork indicative of where Sidenhall Manor, home to the de Sidenhall (or Sydenhale) family, once stood.

Cheswick Green

The village of Cheswick Green was a planned settlement from the 1970s and is large enough to sustain some shops including a newsagent, a post office, a pharmacy and a hairdresser as well as a pub,

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, village hall and a school. The village is served by bus service S2 which runs hourly to Shirley and Solihull.

Governance

It was previously part of the civil parish of

Hockley Heath Hockley Heath is a large village and civil parish in the Arden area mostly within the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England, incorporating the hamlet of Nuthurst, with a history dating back to the year 705 AD as a wood owne ...

, but was broken off in 2009 to become its own civil parish. The civil parish of Cheswick Green includes the village of Cheswick Green, the hamlet of Illshaw Heath, a small part of Warings Green, and the new Blythe Valley Park Village.

References

External links

Website of Cheswick Green Parish CouncilWebsite of Cheswick Green Residents Association
Villages in the West Midlands (county) Solihull {{WestMidlands-geo-stub