Sandwell Valley Country Park - 4 Things to Know Before Visiting

Sandwell Park Farm is a historical restored working farm. Grazing meadows, a traditional farmyard, walled kitchen gardens, Grade II listed buildings, a small museum and award-winning tea rooms provide a perfect day out. It is a venue for rare breed animals and is a member of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust.

Forge Mill Farm is one of two farm visitor centres within Sandwell Valley Country Park. It is a working dairy farm where the main attraction is the dairy and other things. Here you can meet the animals, the kids can enjoy the sand pit and they can join in with craft activities. The farm is open most days throughout the year. There is a small charge to enter.

Oak House in West Bromwich is a delightful half-timbered yeoman farmer's house built about 1620 with brick additions at the rear built in the 1650s as the family wealth and status grew. The Oak House Museum boasts some fine panelling and is furnished with 17th century furniture. The house is set in its own grounds with a children’s playground on site which is available to visitors during opening hours.

Sandwell Valley RSPB reserve is a nature reserve, run by the RSPB, in Sandwell Valley, to the north of West Bromwich, in the Sandwell borough of West Midlands in England. It is adjacent to, and shares its main lake with, Sandwell Valley Country Park and near the settlement of Hamstead. The reserve is located around the eastern and northern edges of the Forge Mill Lake, a storm water retention basin within a meander of the River Tame.

Handsworth Park is a park in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, England. It lies 15 minutes by bus from the centre of Birmingham and comprises 63 acres of landscaped grass slopes, including a large boating lake and a smaller pond fed by the Farcroft and Grove Brooks, flower beds, mature trees and shrubs with a diversity of wildlife.

The Shri Venkateswara Temple is one of the largest temple for the deity Shri Venkateswara in Europe. It is on Dudley Road East, A457 behind the Meadows School in Tividale, West Midlands,England, on the border between Tipton and Oldbury; it was designed in the style of the Tirupati Venkateswara Temple in Tirupati, India, which is the second busiest and richest religious centre in the world after the Vatican. On site facilities include a large community centre, a gatehouse and a Gandhi Peace Cent