West Midlands Region

English Heritage
The Axis
10 Holliday Street
Birmingham
B1 1TG

Tel: 0121 625 6820
Fax: 0121 625 6821

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How to get here

By rail: From New Street Station - take the Victoria Square exit (accessible from the ‘B’ platform).  Turn left out of the main doors, walk along Navigation Street.  Looking directly ahead, you will see the Axis building.  (Axis is clearly written vertically on the building).  Continue towards this building, straight on at the traffic lights (Hill Street), across a pedestrian crossing and walk under the flyover.  You will see the Mailbox shopping mall and hotel complex (a red building) on the left. Turn right, walk up the ramp, adjacent to a car park.  Follow the line of the building round to the left to the main entrance to the Axis.

From Snow Hill Station - from the entrance walk forward onto Colmore Row, turn right, and continue to walk down Colmore Row, past the Cathedral until you come to Victoria Square.  Walk across the top of the square (in front of the Council House) and descend the steps to the right of the fountain.  Cross at the pedestrian lights in front of the Town Hall and walk down Hill Street to the traffic light junction, then turn right onto Navigation Street – then follow directions as above from Navigation Street.

By road: From the M6 - Leave the M6, and join the A38(M) at the M6/J6 junction direction [A38(M)] BIRMINGHAM (CEN).  Leave the A38(M) and straight ahead into A38 (Corporation Street).  Continue straight into A4040 Suffolk Street, Queensway, go under the first underpass then, Bear left onto Great Charles Street Queensway.  Continue straight on one way system and take second exit onto A456 (Broad Street) and Turn first left into Bridge Street, Turn left into Holliday Street, Turn right to the large white and blue building called The Axis.

What we do here
The West Midlands region gives £3.2m in grant aid each year to look after historic buildings and sites most at risk and work in partnership with others in the sector, especially Heritage Lottery Fund and National Trust; provide guidance, training and support to central and local government, owners and others on the management and regulation of the historic environment; advise on individual cases affecting the most important sites and buildings. 

Although geographically one of the smaller regions, the WM has for its area a high population density, centred on the cities of Wolverhampton, Coventry and Birmingham, which is Britain’s 2nd city. 

The region is a unique mix of urban historic cities and market towns contrasting with rural settlements and green landscapes, with just under 10% of the region designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

The region has 1 World Heritage Site at Ironbridge;  approx 34,276 listed buildings and structures; 1,426 scheduled ancient monuments; 761 conservation areas; 148 registered parks and gardens; 5 registered historic battlefields; the highest number of Grade I and II* buildings at risk, at 147, of which Chatterley Whitfield former colliery in Stoke on Trent and Ditherington Flaxmill in Shrewsbury are the two largest.