ALL ABOUT THE AREA WITHIN THE LICKEY BLACKWELL PARISH COUNCIL

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THE COMMUNITY ORCHARD

Twenty native fruit trees were planted on 17th March 2012 to start the Community Orchard and more trees were planned to follow. The planting was carried out by members of the Lickey Hills Society, the Park Rangers and other volunteers.

Entrance to the OrchardEight years after planting

The Orchard is also the venue for the annual Wassail

DID YOU KNOW?

TRANQUIL HOUSE on Old Birmingham Road was the childhood home home of the TV presewnter JEREMY PAXMAN He attended the Lickey Hills Prep School on Rose Hill.

The school was later taken over by the Hillscourt Hotel and Conference Centre.


ELVIS has been seen in Marlbrook


HERBERT(LORD) AUSTIN, founder of the Austin Motor Co. in Longbridge lived at Lickey Grange, off Old Birmingham Road
Entrance to Lickey Grange He, and his wife, are buried in Lickey Churchyard


LOCAL FACT - The Lickey Hills form part of the main English Watershed - This runs across the brow of Old Birmingham Road by the Trinity Centre Parish Hall. Rain falling to the north of this line, on the Birmingham side, eventually finds it's way via streams and rivers to the North Sea. A few feet to the other side of this line, on the Bromsgrove side, rain reaches the Atlantic Ocean at the Severn Estuary.


CLAYTON GARDENS off Old Birmingham Road was built on the site of the Clayton family home.

LISA CLAYTON, later Viscountess Cobham, was the first British woman to sail single-handed and non-stop around the world. She set out in September 1994 and returned on 29th June 1995 after 285 days at sea. Her yacht was "The Spirit of Birmingham"

The yacht was put on display outside the Council House in Birmingham shortly after her return


There is now a Christmas Tree plantation off Old Birmingham Road on Firs Farm. The new owners have planted 1000 saplings. They should be ready to start harvesting in 2030

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