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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Castle Bromwich, Olton, Dorridge, Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, National Motorcycle Museum, Shirley, West Midlands, Hockley Heath, AirRail Link, Castle Bromwich Aerodrome, Knowle, Bickenhill, Meriden, West Midlands, Kingshurst, Halfords Autocentre, Malvern & Brueton Park, Chelmsley Wood, Solihull Moors F.C., Elmdon, West Midlands, Castle Bromwich Hall, Kingfisher Country Park, Fordbridge, Marston Green, Tudor Grange Park, Hillfield Park, Elmdon Park, St. Alphege's Church, Solihull, Smith's Wood, Elmdon Heath, Palmers Rough, Monkspath, Cooks the Bakery, Sharmans Cross Road, Bentley Heath, Yorks Wood, Dorridge Wood, Dickens Heath, Pairc na hEireann, Renewal Christian Centre, Temple Balsall, Blythe Valley Park, Babbs Mill Lake, Cheswick Green, Tidbury Green, Solihull Times, Lyndon, Solihull, Solihull Lodge, Widney Manor. Excerpt: Castle Bromwich is a suburb situated within the northern part of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the English county of West Midlands. It is bordered by the rest of the borough to the south east, North Warwickshire to the east and north east; also Shard End to the south west, Castle Vale and Minworth to the north and Hodge Hill to the west - all areas of the City of Birmingham. It constitutes a civil parish which had a population of 11,857 according to the 2001 census. It was a civil parish within the Meriden Rural District of Warwickshire until the Local Government Act 1972 came into force in 1974, when it became part of Solihull. In 1861, the population was 613. This rose to just over 1,000 in the 1920s, when half of the original parish was ceded to the City of Birmingham for the construction of overspill estates. This caused a drop to 678 (almost the 1861 level). Post Second World War estate building in Castle Bromwich increased the population to 4,356 in 1951, 9,205 in 1961 and...
