West Heath, West Midlands
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West Heath is an area of Birmingham, England, between Kings Norton, Northfield and Longbridge. A small suburb with a Catholic church, Anglican church, Baptist church, post office, opticians, doctors' surgery, nursery, primary school and other basic buildings. It is served by Northfield Station for rail connections and Travel West Midlands bus #45 terminates at West Heath from Birmingham city centre. As the name suggests it used to be heathland until the 1950's when many suburbs were added to the prosperous city of Birmingham. Many houses and schools were built in the 1950's. Mike Skinner, aka The Streets was raised in West Heath and, to date, is the suburb's most famous resident.
