Royal Sutton Coldfield
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 33 ′ N , 1 ° 49 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 108,325 (as of 2016) | ||
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| Part of the country | England | ||
| Shire county | West Midlands | ||
| District | Birmingham | ||
| Civil Parish | Sutton Coldfield | ||
| Website: https://www.suttoncoldfieldtowncouncil.gov.uk/ | |||
Royal Sutton Coldfield (often called Sutton Coldfield for short ) is a city in England that today administratively belongs to the City of Birmingham , to the north of which it is located. Until 1974 Sutton Coldfield was an independent borough in Warwickshire . In 2016 it had 108,325 inhabitants.
Sutton Coldfield forms its own constituency in general elections (long represented by the Conservatives). Since 2004 Sutton Coldfield has been a separate municipality within Birmingham. In the summer of 2015, almost 70% of the eligible voters in a referendum voted for the establishment of their own town council . Since March 2016 Sutton Coldfield therefore forms its own community ( Parish )
Sutton Coldfield is traditionally one of the most affluent residential areas in the West Midlands, as evidenced by villas like Little Aston or the Four Oaks Estate.
King Henry VIII granted Sutton Coldfield the official title of Royal Town in 1528. It was not until 1885 that the status changed to that of a municipal borough , with the old title still in use.
Sutton Coldfield Station, on the Birmingham to York line, was the scene of a railway accident on the afternoon of January 23, 1955 , which killed 17 people. The train, as an express on the way from York to Bristol , derailed with ten wagons directly in front of the station and then crashed into the platform platform.
Worth seeing is primarily the Sutton Park , the largest with nearly 10 square kilometers of Europe city park. The city is home to the Sutton Coldfield FC football club
Personalities
- Ken Miles (1918–1966), racing car driver
- Hazel Court (1926-2008), actress
- Tony Kinsey (* 1927), jazz drummer and band leader
- David Gordon Wilson (1928-2019), engineer
- Raymond Wilson (1928-2018), physicist
- Eric Solomon (1935-2020), game designer
- Jonathan Harvey (1939–2012), composer
- Rob Halford (born 1951), singer with Judas Priest
- Peter Ricketts (* 1952), diplomat
- Paul Smith (* 1955), racing car driver
- Dorian Yates (born 1962), bodybuilder
- Colin Charvis (born 1972), rugby union player
- Scott Adkins (* 1976), actor and martial artist
- Rory Delap (born 1976), Irish football player
- Darius Vassell (* 1980), football player
- Jon-Allan Butterworth (* 1986), track cyclist
- Carl Ikeme (* 1986), football player
- James and Oliver Phelps (* 1986; twins), actors
- Riki Christodoulou (* 1988), British racing driver
Individual evidence
- ↑ City Population: Sutton Coldfield ( English ). Retrieved February 28, 2018.
- ↑ Overview of the election results on the Metropolitan City Council website, accessed on April 2, 2018
- ^ A town council for Sutton Coldfield? Birmingham City Council information brochure, issued on the occasion of the referendum to set up a separate city council for the Sutton Coldfield area in summer 2015. Available online on the Birmingham City Council website, PDF file, 134 kB, accessed April 1, 2018 )
- ↑ 1955: Express train crashes killing 14. BBC, undated, accessed April 1, 2018. (English)
- ^ Sutton Coldfield rail disaster memorial unveiled. Sutton Cornfield Local, January 24, 2016, accessed April 1, 2018. (English)