Cheswick Green is a village and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
within the
Metropolitan Borough of Solihull
The Metropolitan Borough of Solihull is a metropolitan borough in West Midlands (county), West Midlands county, England. It is named after its largest town, Solihull, from which Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council is based. For Eurostat purpose ...
in the
English
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county of
West Midlands, incorporating the nearby hamlet of Illshaw Heath. The settlement lies approximately south west of
Solihull
Solihull ( ) is a market town and the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. Solihull is situated on the River Blythe in the Arden, Warwickshire, Forest of Arden ar ...
town centre. The civil parish population as taken at the
2021 census was 2741. It borders
Dickens Heath
Dickens Heath is a large modern village and civil parish in the borough of Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, Solihull in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands and historic Warwickshire, incorporating the much older hamlet of Whitlocks End. ...
and
Monkspath
Monkspath is a large residential community and light-industrial area of Solihull, West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England, southeast of the town's Shirley, West Midlands, Shirley district (and served by Junction 4 of the M42 motorway). Mo ...
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
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from the late-1960s and is large enough to sustain two fantastic shops, a well ran local business café, a large pub in the Craft Union chain, a pharmacy and a doctors surgery.
The village is served by Landflight Bus Service which runs hourly to Shirley and Solihull usually.
Governance
It was previously part of the civil parish of
Hockley Heath
Hockley Heath is a village and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England. The village is to the south of the West Midlands conurbation, southeast of Birmingham from Solihull town centre and north of St ...
, 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)
Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull
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