Mountains & hills · West Midlands
Barr Beacon
In or near Walsall Wood.
Barr Beacon — Named summit at 227 m.
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About
Barr Beacon is a mountain in west midlands. (Hill in Walsall, West Midlands, England.) According to Wikipedia: "Barr Beacon is a hill on the edge of Walsall, West Midlands, England, very near the border with Birmingham. It gives its name to nearby Great Barr and to the local secondary school Barr Beacon School. It is historically the site of a beacon where fires were lit in times of impending attack or on celebratory occasions. The site is on green belt land and is of local importance for nature conservation, as defined by Walsall Borough Council, who have designated some 60 acres of it as a Local Nature Reserve."
- Coordinates
- 52.5743, -1.9118
Sources
- osm: n3295728366 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Barr Beacon (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Barr Beacon Hill Monument.JPG (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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