Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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<p><b>Edgbaston</b> is a <a href="/pages/w/112263862119865">suburban</a> area of Central <a href="/pages/w/113052622042476">Birmingham</a>, England. It is curved around the southwest of the city centre. It is bordered by <a href="/pages/w/104041522965723">Moseley</a> to the south east and by <a href="/pages/w/105568086142354">Smethwick</a> and <a href="/pages/w/138178929545536">Winson Green</a> to the north west.</p><p>In the 19th century, the area was under the control of the <a href="/pages/w/133500703355658">Gough-Calthorpe family</a> who refused to allow <a href="/pages/w/109544329071754">factories</a> or <a href="/pages/w/112595425421696">warehouse</a>s to be built in Edgbaston, thus making it attractive for the <a href="/pages/w/111812402164837">middle class</a>. Edgbaston is home to the <a href="/pages/w/104126989622899">University of Birmingham</a>, established as <a href="/pages/w/108418129178510">Birmingham Medical School</a> in 1825. Edgbaston traditionally has a reputation for being one of the most upmarket and affluent parts of Birmingham or <i>"where the trees begin"</i>.</p><p>The parliamentary constituency of Edgbaston includes the smaller Edgbaston <a href="/pages/w/132670576769595">ward</a> and the wards of <a href="/pages/w/109617799063751">Bartley Green</a>, <a href="/pages/w/112252428789150">Harborne</a> and <a href="/pages/w/109252952425971">Quinton</a>. Edgbaston is also a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Birmingham%2C_England%23Districts" class="wikipedia">local government district</a>, managed by its own <a href="/pages/w/110740948953341">district committee</a>.</p><h2>Etymology</h2><p>Edgbaston means "village of a man called Ecgbald", from the <a href="/pages/w/115885985092933">Old English</a> personal name + <i>tun</i> "farm". The personal name<i> Ecgbald</i> means "bold sword" (literally "bold edge"). The name was recorded as a village known as <i>Celboldistane</i> in the <a href="/pages/w/519809348056846">Hundred</a> of Coleshill in the 1086 Domesday Book until at least 1139, wrongly suggesting that <a href="/pages/w/115885985092933">Old English</a> <i>stān</i> "stone, rock" is the final element of the name.</p>

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Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom is Birmingham based place and this enity listed in City category. Contact phone number of Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom: <<not-applicable>>