Langley Hall Park near Robin Hood Golf Club
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When lockdown kicked in back in March 2020, the first daily walk I did was to Langley Hall Park. I noticed it on Google Maps and it looked like it was in walking distance. The park in Solihull is next to Robin Hood Golf Club. Main entrance on Swanswell Road. It is near Olton and Kineton Green in Solihull. Not far from the Birmingham border (Gospel Oak / Hall Green). Been two more times.
Langley Hall Park
Welcome to Langley Hall Park. It is located in Olton, Solihull. Not far from Kineton Green. It is a small park with a pond and stream. There is paths that leads to the local schools. Suitable for walks, if you are walking from the roads / streets outside of the park then into the park. The main entrance gate is off Swanswell Road, which is linked to Langley Hall Road. This road goes to Gospel Lane, which takes you over the border in Birmingham (Gospel Oak / Hall Green). Acocks Green isn't that far away as well. The side paths leads to Reynalds Cross School, Langley School Specialist College and Langley Primary School. The road at the end leads to St Bernard's Road. You can't fail to notice Robin Hood Golf Club, which is to the south of the park on the other side of the fences.
My first walk to and then around Langley Hall Park was on the 24th March 2020, the day after the Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the whole nation that we are in lockdown. And you must stay at home. And if you go out, other than shopping or medical needs, to go for one form of daily exercise a day. I headed for Langley Hall Park, although for the majority of lockdown, I'm at home, more than going out for the odd daily exercise walk (e.g. creating a lot of Birmingham We Are posts).
Arriving at the park, the tree on the right had yellow leaves, not quite green. Enter through this gate.
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Brilliant blue sunshine over an empty field.
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Solihull M.B.C. Langley Hall Local Nature Reserve - typical Solihull park sign that you would also find in other parks in the Borough.
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First look at the pond, the leaves had yet to grow back on the trees.
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Saw an Egret in the pond.
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This was the right hand side of the park. Or the south west corner towards Langley Hall Road.
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This path goes past the fences near Robin Hood Golf Club.
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This would be the south east corner of the park.
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The path leading back to the main entrance.
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A bench halfway to the next path.
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And back to the main entrance / exit.
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At the time was daffodils growing on the left.
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This would be the entrance that I would use the most, even on my return visits.
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Second visit was on the 11th April 2020. It was the Easter Bank Holiday Weekend and it was quite warm at the time. There wasn't that many people in the park at the time, just the odd other person. A look back at the main entrance. Only a couple of weeks on from my last visit, this tree was blooming already.
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Went around the back of the pond this time around.
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More trees around the back of the pond.
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There is a bird house in the pond.
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Many young families stop around the pond to look at the ducks or other wildlife.
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Started to head down a path past the golf course and schools. Saw this robin on the fence before it flew away.
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Only went down the path about halfway before turning back. I suspected that it might lead to St Bernard's Road. And as I didn't finish the path at the time, I wanted to go back.
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Heading back, saw this blossom tree near Reynalds Cross School.
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These are the trees close to the main entrance. The daffodils had finished flowering at this point.
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As we left the park sign made a nice shadow with Langley Hall Park on the pavement.
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For my third and most recent visit, I decided to get into the park a different way, on the 2nd July 2020. Walking into Solihull down Streetsbrook Road. I turned onto St Bernard's Road. When I saw a sign for Robin Hood Golf Club, I turned into the side road. Also at that end was Langley Primary School. Both venues seem to have reopened. Eventually the road gave way to a path between the golf course and the school grounds, and was back in the park.
Saw a lady coming from the path on the right.
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I stuck to the path running alongside the golf course.
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This lady was going for a run in the park.
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I noticed that there was a lot of long grass growing, but some of the grass had been cut for social distancing purposes.
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Getting near the path that runs alongside the stream.
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Noticed a family was looking at a family of ducks, so I got this photo of the ducks.
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The leaves on the trees around the pond were fully grown back.
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Heading off the path near the pond and back to the path to the main entrance. More long grass to the right.
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The leaves on the trees near the main entrance were really long by this point.
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And back to the main entrance / exit gate. This time using it only the once, as I had come from the St Bernard's Road entrance. I think there is another path leading to Langley Hall Road, but I've not used that entrance yet.
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Photos taken by Elliott Brown.
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