Ancient monumentThe King’s Standing mound
The low grassy mound that gave Kingstanding its name — a scheduled ancient monument beside the Roman road, wrapped in legends of treasure and King Charles I.
Kingstanding Together · Own work
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Grade II* listedMaryvale, Old Oscott
The Grade II* listed house on Old Oscott Hill that was St John Henry Newman’s first home as a Catholic — he named it Maryvale in 1846. A home of Catholic worship and learning for more than three hundred years.
Andy Mabbett, 2016 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Nature reserveQueslett Nature Reserve
Woodland, wildflowers and a lake in an old sand quarry off Queslett Road — on the land of Booth’s Farm, where a notorious forger was arrested in 1812. Home of Frylan Rock.
Martin Richard Phelan, 2022 · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Lost commonPerry Barr Common and the Warrens
Before the houses, before the farms, Kingstanding was open heath and rabbit warren. An Act of 1811 and an award of 1814 turned it into the straight fields the estate was built on.
C. Greenwood, Map of the County of Stafford, surveyed 1819–20, published 1820 · Out of copyright
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Lost houseKing’s Standing Lodge and the Warren Houses
A lonely warrener’s house on the heath, on the map by 1775 and let with 300 acres of rabbit warren in 1820. It stood by today’s Bandywood Crescent until about 1930.
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, revised 1901, published 1904 · Out of copyright
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Roman roadIcknield Street
The Roman road from Wall to Metchley ran along the line of Kingstanding Road, past the King’s Standing mound and Romans Field.
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, revised 1901 · Out of copyright
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Lost farmWarren Farm and Lodge Pool
A lodge on the rabbit heath that became Warren Farm, with Lodge Pool, a hydraulic ram and Pool Farm beside it, all now under the Warren Farm estate.
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, revised 1901 · Out of copyright
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Lost millsPaper Mill End and the Perry Barr mills
Blade mills, paper mills and a wire mill worked the Hol Brook below Old Oscott from 1597 until the 1840s. Paper Mill End still carries the name.
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, first edition, 1880s · Out of copyright
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Lost brookOscott Brook
A small stream once ran from a fish pond at Old Oscott, along the line of Birdbrook Road, to the mill pool at The Beeches and on to the Tame. It went underground with the estate.
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, first edition, 1880s · Out of copyright
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Lost hamletMedieval Oscott
Deeds from 1336 record a chapel at Oscott beside the Lichfield–Perry road, and “the town of Oscote” in 1392. Its Chapel Fields kept the name into the 1840s.
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, first edition, 1880s · Out of copyright
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Lost farmBooth’s Farm and William Booth
William Booth forged banknotes at Booth’s Farm until a raid in March 1812; his hanging took three attempts. The farmhouse stood until 1974 and its footings survive.
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, revised 1901 · Out of copyright
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Grade II listedYew Tree Cottages, Booths Lane
A pair of stuccoed cottages on Booths Lane, probably late 17th century and split into two homes in the early 1800s — a rare survivor of old Queslett, listed Grade II.
Richard Law · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Looking after these places. These pages tell the story of Kingstanding’s places. To see what Kingstanding Together is doing for them, visit Kingstanding Green Spaces and Heritage & Conservation.
The Kingstanding we’ve lost
Not everything survived. The Woolworths on Hawthorn Road, shops and pubs that anchored the parades, corners of the old estate remade over ninety years — much of it lives now only in memory and family photographs. Gathering it before it’s gone for good is exactly what this group is for, so the Odeon isn’t the only piece of Kingstanding we manage to save.
Roy Hughes · CC BY-SA 2.0History sourced from Historic England’s listing and scheduling records, the Birmingham history research of Bill Dargue, and Wikipedia. Photographs are used under Creative Commons licences and credited to their photographers — full details on our photo credits page.