Metropolitan Borough of Solihull
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| Borough of Solihull | |
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| Geography | |
| Status: | Metropolitan borough |
| Region: | West Midlands |
| Ceremonial County: | West Midlands |
| Area: - Total | Ranked 198th 178.29 km² |
| Admin. HQ: | Solihull |
| ONS code: | 00CT |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2003 est.) - Density | Ranked 66th 200,288 1,123 / km² |
| Ethnicity: | 94.6% White 2.5% S.Asian |
| Politics | |
| Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council http://www.solihull.gov.uk/ | |
| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | Conservative |
| MPs: | Lorely Burt, Caroline Spelman |
The Metropolitan borough of Solihull is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is named after its main town of Solihull, which forms part of the Birmingham urban area.
The borough also contains the area of Castle Bromwich which used to be part of the Meriden Rural District of Warwickshire. It also contains a sizeable rural area known as the Meriden Gap (after the village of Meriden) which serves as a green belt separating the Birmingham conurbation from Coventry.
The borough includes Birmingham International Airport, the National Exhibition Centre, and Birmingham International railway station.
Until 1974 the area now covered by the borough of Solihull used to be part of Warwickshire. The area became a metropolitan borough of the newly created West Midlands county on April 1st 1974. The borough was formed by the merger of Solihull County Borough and Meriden Rural District, which forms the main rural part of the borough and county.
Places in Solihull
Localities in the borough include:
- Balsall, Balsall Common, Barston, Bentley Heath, Berkswell, Bickenhill, Blossomfield
- Catherine-de-Barnes, Castle Bromwich, Chelmsley Wood, Cheswick Green, Coleshill Heath
- Dickens Heath, Dorridge
- Elmdon Heath
- Fordbridge
- Hampton-in-Arden
- Kingshurst, Knowle
- Lyndon
- Marston Green, Meriden, Monkspath Street
- Olton
- Packwood
- St Alphege, Sharmans Cross, Shirley, Silhill, Smith's Wood, Solihull
- Temple Balsall
- Whitlock's End
| Districts of England - West Midlands | 
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Birmingham | Bridgnorth | Bromsgrove | Cannock Chase | Coventry | Dudley | East Staffordshire | Herefordshire | Lichfield | Malvern Hills | Newcastle-under-Lyme | North Shropshire | North Warwickshire | Nuneaton and Bedworth | Oswestry | Redditch | Rugby | Sandwell | Shrewsbury and Atcham | Solihull | South Shropshire | South Staffordshire | Stafford | Staffordshire Moorlands | Stoke-on-Trent | Stratford-on-Avon | Tamworth | Telford and Wrekin | Walsall | Warwick | Wolverhampton | Worcester | Wychavon | Wyre Forest | |
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Administrative Counties with multiple districts: Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire |