Great Barr

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Great Barr is a large and loosely-defined area which straddles the boundaries of Birmingham, West Bromwich (Sandwell) and Walsall, West Midlands, England. "Barr" means "hill", and the name refers to nearby Barr Beacon.

[edit] Geography

Great Barr includes much of the B42, B43 and B44 postcode areas.

The traditional centre of Great Barr is focussed on the busy junction of the A34 and A4041 roads, at the Scott Arms public house and shopping centre. This is named after the Scott family of Great Barr Hall, which was once home of Samuel Galton and a meeting place of the Lunar Society.

However, the name is also loosely applied to a swathe of the West Midlands bounded by junction 8 of the M5 motorway in the west, the Walsall Line railway and Perry Barr to the south, Kingstanding to the east, and the open countryside north of the M6 motorway.

In the Sandwell part of Great Barr, is Red House Park.

Great Barr is also home to Dartmouth High School, a secondary school which gives education to children aged 11 to 16 of both sexes.