Plan your visit
Facilities
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Visitor centre is closed
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Car park
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Toilets are closed
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Accessible toilets are closed
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Baby changing is closed
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Pushchair friendly
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Refreshments facilities are closed
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Picnic area
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Binocular hire is closed
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Guided walks is closed
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Viewing points are closed
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Nature trails
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Educational facilities are closed
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Play area
Accessibility
How to get here
Hamstead is the nearest railway station. Turn right onto the main road - the Hamstead Hill/Old Walsall Road. Turn left into Hamstead Road then take the fourth left into Tanhouse Avenue just after Hamstead Primary School following the brown sign.
From Birmingham Priory Queensway: Take the number 16 bus to Hamstead, alight at Tanhouse Avenue. From West Bromwich Bus Station: Take the number 5 or 46 bus and alight at Bowstoke Road. Walk along Bowstoke Road to Tanhouse Avenue (20 minutes walk). From Sutton Coldfield Lower Parade: Take the number 5 bus and alight at Bowstoke Road. Walk along Bowstoke Road to Tanhouse Avenue (20 minutes walk).
National Route 5.
The reserve is brown signposted off the A4041 (Newton Rd) North of Hampstead, take Hamstead Road (B4167), which is fifth on the left near the bottom of the hill by the church (look for the brown sign marked RSPB nature centre).
Sat nav POI file: If you have a satellite navigation system that can accept POI files, please see our POI page for a download link and instructions.
Downloads
Map to help you find your way around our RSPB Sandwell Valley reserve. PDF, 336Kb.
Sandwell Valley reserve mapContact Sandwell Valley
- RSPB Sandwell Valley, Tanhouse Ave, Birmingham B43 5AG, UK
- sandwellvalley@rspb.org.uk
- 0121 357 7395
- @RSPBSandwell
- Find us on facebook
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