page_title: Hockley Heath
section_title: Transport links
hierarchical_section_title: Hockley Heath / Transport links
caption_attribution_description: English: Bridge by former wharf at Hockley Heath, Solihull. This short arm of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal by the Stratford Road (A4300) originally led to a coal wharf. The aptly named Wharf Inn (now renamed Wharf Tavern - far more trendy!) can be seen by the road overlooking it. 1704553 The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal was built from King's Norton Junction (with the Worcester and Birmingham Canal) to Kingswood Junction (with the Warwick and Birmingham Canal - now Grand Union Canal) by 1803. A second phase of construction started in 1812, and by 1815 was connected to the River Avon in Stratford. Total length 25.5 miles, with 54 locks.
context_page_description: Hockley Heath is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England. The parish is to the south of the West Midlands conurbation, 12 miles southeast of Birmingham 5.5 miles from Solihull and 12.5 miles north of Stratford-upon-Avon. The village forms part of the border with Warwickshire to the south. Until recently, as well as Hockley Heath village, it included Cheswick Green, Dickens Heath, Tidbury Green, Salter Street, and Whitlock's End. However following a community governance review, on 31 March 2009 the former Hockley Heath Parish Council was abolished and on 1 April 2009 four new parish councils were created. The new parishes follow the old ward boundaries for the Hockley Heath Parish and each parish now has a parish council. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 6,771, being measured at the 2011 Census as 2,038.
context_section_description: The village is situated on the main A3400 Birmingham to Stratford Road, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of junction 4 of the M42 motorway affording links to London and other major cities, whilst 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the village there is a junction off the southbound carriageway of the M40 motorway.
  The village is on the route of bus services X20 which runs between Birmingham and Stratford-upon-Avon. Additionally service S3 links the village to Solihull via Dorridge. Dorridge Station is the nearest railway station to the village at 2 miles (3.2 km) away with local connections to Solihull, Birmingham and Warwick and main line connections to London Marylebone on Chiltern Railways.
  Nearby villages include Earlswood, Lapworth, Kingswood, Baddesley Clinton, Tanworth-in-Arden and the large village of Dorridge.
  The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal runs through the village and Hockley Heath Wharf, situated to the rear of The Wharf Public house,
  meant it became one the Arden villages which later became a convenient stopping off point for users of the canal. The canal, which runs from Kings Norton, was navigable as far as Hockley Heath by 1798, the remaining link to Stratford being opened by 1816. Hockley Wharf served the surrounding area and non-perishable goods were unloaded there, including timber, lime, coke, coal, cement, bricks and salt. The last commercial load was brought into the wharf on Christmas Eve, 1929.
  The village was formed as a horse changing point on the 25-mile journey between Birmingham and Stratford-upon-Avon. A public house once called "The Nag's Head" still stands next to the place where the stables are thought to have once stood.
caption: The bridge by former wharf at Hockley Heath
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