Fordbridge

Fordbridge is a town 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 ...

in 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 West Midlands, England. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 8,749. It lies within the historic county of

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It is bordered by Staffordshire and Leicestershire to the north, Northamptonshire to the east, Ox ...

. The town is encompassed within the electoral ward Kingshurst & Fordbridge. The village of Kingshurst borders the town at the western point of Cooks Lane. A significant part of the town borders the City of Birmingham district to the east. The River Cole, West Midlands shapes the border between Fordbridge and neighbouring Chelmsley Wood to the south and west.

Etymology

Fordbridge gets its name from the crossing over the River Cole on Cooks Lane, which was referred to as "Ford Bridge" on 19th century OS maps. This name suggests this site was previously a ford, but eventually a

bridge A bridge is a structure built to Span (engineering), span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, whi ...

was built on the site of that ford, thus giving the bridge and ultimately the civil parish its name.

Transport

The closest railway station to the town is

Marston Green Marston Green is a village in the civil parish of Bickenhill and Marston Green, in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands. It lies within the historic counties of England, historic county of Warwickshire ...

References

External links

{{Commons category, Fordbridgehttp://www.fordbridge.org.uk/ - Fordbridge Resources & Information Towns in the West Midlands (county) Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull