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6 unusual facts about Bartley Green


Bartley Green

Bartley Green has produced sportsmen and women including Fliss Johnson, a former pupil of Woodgate Primary School, who became the English Ladies Amateur Golf Champion in May 2005 and won the BBC Midlands Sports Woman of the Year Award.

However, the south-west end of the reservoir overlapped into the parish of Frankley, in Worcestershire (Hereford and Worcester, from 1974).

It covers 46 hectares of countryside and it is well known as the place where Bill Oddie did a lot of his early birdwatching, and features in his books (notably Bill Oddie's Gone Birding) and television programmes.

Jane Bunford

Bunford attended St. Michael's Secondary School in Bartley Green.

Jane C. Loudon

Thus he sold the house in Edgbaston and they moved to another of his properties – Kitwell House, Bartley Green, 6 miles away.

(Sources vary on her place of birth: according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) she was born at Ritwell House—possibly the same as Kitwell House at Bartley Green.



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