page_title: Chelmsley Wood
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Chelmsley Wood / History
caption_attribution_description: English: OS map of Chelmsley Wood in 1887
context_page_description: Chelmsley Wood is a neighbourhood, civil parish and big housing estate of Birmingham in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, England. 12,453 people lived in it in 2013. It is near Birmingham Airport and the National Exhibition Centre. It is about 8 miles east of Birmingham City Centre and 5 miles north of Solihull town centre.
context_section_description: Chelmsley Wood is a new area, which was built by Birmingham City Council in the late 1960s and early 1970s on very old woodland, once part of the Forest of Arden.
caption: OS map of Chelmsley Wood in 1887, before the area was built on
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