Hall Green

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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 both Tony Hancock, who lived on Southam Road, and J.R.R. Tolkien whose father was the master at 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 Hobbitt and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The area of Hall Green was not developed at the time when Tolkien lived there prior to the First World War.

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