Kingstanding Wood originated as a plantation established after the enclosure of Perry Barr Common and Sutton Chase between 1814 and 1824. Historic descriptions place the wood to the north of the later Kingstanding estate, west of Sutton Oak Road.
The surrounding landscape changed considerably during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as Kingstanding and neighbouring areas developed, and parts of the historic woodland were lost or altered. The name Kings Standing Wood nevertheless survives today for woodland around the Banners Gate and Streetly side of Kingstanding.
The wood is an important reminder of the rural landscape of commons, farms, lanes and plantations that existed before the large-scale development of the Kingstanding estate.
Sources. William Dargue, A History of Birmingham Places & Placenames from A to Y — “Kingstanding”; modern mapping recording the name Kings Standing Wood north of Kingstanding.
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