Birchills

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Birchills is a residential area of Walsall in the West Midlands of England.

It is situated several hundred yards west of the town centre and is an established area containing many different housing types, though Victorian/Edwardian terraced houses are interwar council houses are the most frequent type.

Reedswood Park is located in Birchills, as is Pouk Hill - a hill which inspired a 1970s Slade song.

Birchills has an above average proportion of ethnic minorities living in it, mostly Pakistani Muslims.

Several tower blocks, built during the 1960s, are situated in the east of Birchills, near Walsall town centre. Murderer Raymond Leslie Morris was living in one of these flats with his wife at the time of his arrest on 4 November 1967.