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©Whatlep
Dist:0.2km<br/>Much of this square has been covered by housing development as Solihull has expanded over the last 30 years. This old cottage on Widney Lane survives from times before the encroachment of the urban sprawl.
©David Stowell
Dist:0.3km<br/>The road on the other axis is Widney Lane.
©Whatlep
Dist:0.3km<br/>Another building on Widney Lane from before the housing developments of the last 30 years.
©David Stowell
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Electricity pylon which once stood in farmland next to the Cran Brook, and is now in the middle of Hillfield Park, the stream long since culverted.
©Robin Jones
Dist:0.5km<br/>Hillfield Park. The earth bund in the background screens modern factory units from the Monkspath housing estates.
©Robin Jones
Dist:0.5km<br/>This farmhouse dates from circa 1595 and is a grade 2 listed building. It is now surrounded by the Monkspath housing estates and the buildings have been converted into the local pub.
©David Stowell
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©Whatlep
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©Whatlep
Dist:0.6km<br/>An artificial lake in Hillfield Park, filled by the Cran Brook, which gives its name to Cranmore but is now largely culverted. A large pond stood on this site about a century ago, but was later filled in by farmers.
©Robin Jones
Dist:0.6km<br/>The lake in Hillfield Park created when the surrounding Cranmore-Widney-Monkspath housing estates were built in the 1980s. It is filled by the Cran Brook, which is culverted beyond the lake beneath an extensive landfill site full of household refuse from the seventies and before.
©Robin Jones
Dist:0.6km<br/>This barn, part of the Shelley Farm, sits right on the northern edge of the square. The building dates from around 1600 and is a grade 2 listed building now used as part of the local pub.
©David Stowell
Dist:0.6km<br/>The Cran Brook entering the lake in Hillfield Park. This is a new channel dug in the early 1980s, with the dry course of the original stream which once formed the boundary of Tanworth-in-Arden parish a few feet away.
©Robin Jones
Dist:0.7km<br/>Part of the 1970 & '80s housing development that covers much of this square.
©David Stowell

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