Swan Village Gas Works, West Bromwich

Name: Swan Village Gas Works
Address: West Bromwich, United Kingdom

#6 among attractions in West Bromwich

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Swan Village Gas Works, is a historical manufacturing plant in the United Kingdom for the production of coal gas, or, as it was known in the vernacular, "town gas". The works are situated in Swan Village, a part of West Bromwich in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell. Most of the works have been demolished although a few relics survive. Parts of the works are still in operation today as part of the National Grid. ()

Coordinates: 52°31'41"N, 2°0'43"W

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Sandwell (Greets Green and Lyng)West Bromwich United Kingdom

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Swan Village Gas Works – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: The Public, Sheepwash Urban Park, New Square, Oak House.

1 miSE
Museum, Art museum
The Public, West Bromwich
26 min walk • The Public was a multi-purpose venue and art gallery in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England, at the forefront of a regional regeneration programme which was – by late 2013– to also bring Europe's biggest Tesco, a multiplex cinema, restaurants and a new retail centre.
1.1 miW
Park
Sheepwash Urban Park, Birmingham
28 min walk • Sheepwash Urban Park is a Local Nature Reserve, situated in Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, in the West Midlands conurbation of the United Kingdom. It forms part of the Black Country Urban Forest.
1 miSE
Shopping, Shopping centre
New Square, Birmingham
27 min walk • New Square, West Bromwich is a 473,000 square feet new shopping and leisure venue in West Bromwich in the West Midlands, England which opened July 2013.
0.9 miS
Museum, History museum
Oak House, Birmingham
24 min walk • The Oak House is a timber framed building dating from the sixteenth century located in Greets Green, West Bromwich, England. The original owners of Oak House are not known, but the family most closely associated with it are the Turtons who were living there by 1634.
1.3 miSW
Temple
Shri Venkateswara Temple, Birmingham
33 min walk • The Shri Venkateswara Temple is one of the largest functioning Hindu temples in Europe. It is dedicated in the Vaishnava tradition to a form of the Hindu god Vishnu. The temple is located in Tividale, West Midlands, England between the suburbs of Tipton and Oldbury, northwest of Birmingham city.
0.8 miSE
City hall
West Bromwich Town Hall, Birmingham
20 min walk • West Bromwich Town Hall is a municipal building in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. It is a Grade II listed building.
1 miNW
Bridge
Black Country, West Bromwich
27 min walk • The Black Country is an area of the West Midlands county, in the United Kingdom covering most of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, and some minor parts of Walsall. Dudley and Tipton are generally considered to be the centre.
1.3 miNW
Canal
Tame Valley Junction, Birmingham
33 min walk • Tame Valley Junction, also known as Doe Bank Junction, is a canal junction at the western limit of the Tame Valley Canal where it meets the Walsall Canal, south of Walsall, in the West Midlands, England.
0.6 miSW
Canal
Wednesbury Old Canal, Birmingham
15 min walk • Wednesbury Old Canal is part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in West Midlands, England. It opened in 1769, and although parts of it were abandoned in 1955 and 1960, the section between Pudding Green Junction and Ryder's Green Junction is navigable, as it provides a link to the Walsall Canal.
~1370 ftNE
Canal
Ridgacre Branch, Birmingham
7 min walk • The Ridgacre Branch is a canal branch of the Wednesbury Old Canal, part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, in the West Midlands, England. It opened in 1828, to serve collieries and iron works, and was disused by the 1960s.
~1390 ftSW
Neighbourhood
Swan Village, West Bromwich
7 min walk • Swan Village is an area of West Bromwich, England. The population taken at the 2011 census can be found in the West Bromwich listing. It is now divided by the Black Country New Road and was the site of the Swan Village Gas Works. Nearby was the junction of the Ridgacre Branch with the Wednesbury Old Canal, both now disused.

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Which popular attractions are close to Swan Village Gas Works?

Nearby attractions include Ridgacre Branch, Birmingham (7 min walk), Swan Village, West Bromwich (7 min walk), Wednesbury Old Canal, Birmingham (15 min walk), Black Lake Tunnel, West Bromwich (17 min walk).