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| • | Yardley is an area in east Birmingham, England. It is also a formal district, managed by its own district committee.
Birmingham Yardley is a constituency and its Member of Parliament is John Hemming
Yardley has three main primary schools. These are Yardley, Hobmoor and Lyndon Green. It also has two main secondary schools, which are Cockshut Hill and Sheldon Heath.
Yardley's main shopping area is known as The Yew Tree. Named after the tree that stood on the roundabout at the junction in the centre of Yardley. Unfortunately, it was damaged during work to the roundabout and ended up having to be cut down. It was later replaced by another yew tree which is still growing however a local ecologist has claimed the tree is not a yew but a poplar tree.
Yardley was once well known for its pub also called The Yew Tree. Unforunately, it was shut down and burned twice one of the fires caused an adjacent road, Stoney Lane, to be closed to traffic for 1 day. It was later demolished and replaced by a Co-op supermarket and restaurants.
Yardley is not new. Yardley has reference to the Domesday Book and its earliest known reference was in an old passage written by monks calling it Gyrdleah in the year 972. The boundaries of the medieval parish, which survived intact until 1911 when it was incorporated into Birmingham, are nothing like that of the modern district, however. Yardley has an old Tudor hall called Blakesley Hall and an old church that also dates back to the Tudor period. A sign of its age is a doorway which is surrounded by Tudor roses and a pomegranate which commemorate the marriage of Prince Arthur, Prince of Wales, to Catherine of Aragon. A sizeable amount of Yardley, called Old Yardley, is a conservation area.
Yardley's nearest train station is Stechford. It is served by many West Midlands buses, most connecting to Birmingham city centre, Chelmsley Wood and Solihull.
Yardley has also had a royal visit by Princess Anne. She drove herself t
Source: [wikipedia: yardley, west midlands]
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