Hall Green is an area and ward in south Birmingham, England. It is also a formal district, managed by its own district committee.

Birmingham, Hall Green is a constituency; its member of Parliament is Stephen James McCabe.

Housing is largely inter-war (mainly semi-detached) and pleasently laid out with tree-lined roads and green spaces. There are still a good number of independent locally run shops.

There is a popular Greyhound Stadium and race course situated on York Road. The stadium has won the BGRB Midlands and Western Region Racecourse of the Year 2003 award for the 4th year running.

Hall Green has been a home to comedian Tony Hancock, who lived at 41 Southam Road until the age of three (the house contains a placque commemorating this), racing commentator Murray Walker, who was born at 214 Reddings Lane, Nigel Mansell, who though born in Upton-upon-Severn spent most of his childhood and early adult years in the area and most famously J.R.R. Tolkien, who lived near Sarehole Mill, Birmingham's only working water mill. Sarehole Mill is a tourist attraction that is open to visitors during the summer months and has several locations nearby that are supposedly the inspiration behind scenes in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The area of Hall Green was not developed at the time when Tolkien lived there (1896-1900).

Sources

• J R R Tolkien - A Biography, Humphrey Carpenter ISBN 0261102451

External links

• Hall Green Community Network pages
• Birmingham City Council's Hall Green pages
• Hall Green Library
• Photographs Hall Green
• Greyhound racing in Hall Green

Areas of Birmingham, England