page_title: Harborne
section_title: Sport and leisure
hierarchical_section_title: Harborne / Culture / Sport and leisure
caption_attribution_description: English: postcard entitled "The Cricket Ground, Harborne", used in the post with a halfpenny stamp of King Edward VII and postmarked "Harborne SP 14 06" (for September 1906)
context_page_description: Harborne is an area of south-west Birmingham, England, three miles southwest from Birmingham city centre. It is a Birmingham City Council ward in the formal district and in the parliamentary constituency of Birmingham Edgbaston.
context_section_description: Harborne Hockey Club was founded in 1903 and is the highest ranked Club in the local area. The club has six ladies and five mens teams as well as a thriving youth section. It is the only club in the West Midlands to be affiliated to Flyerz Hockey which actively supports people with disabilities play sport.
  Harborne's tennis court facilities can be found in Moorpool at The Circle and on Moor Pool Avenue. Harborne has three bowling greens, two at public houses (Green Man and The Bell) and one in Moorpool. Grove Park and Queens Park are both in Harborne. There are two golf courses (Harborne Golf Course and Harborne Municipal Golf Course), as well as a cricket ground. When the swimming pool was rebuilt and opened in 2012, it was Birmingham's first new swimming pool for more than twenty years; the centre also houses fitness facilities. Harborne is bordered by Bourn Brook Walkway on the south and Harborne Walkway to the north east.
caption: The Cricket Ground, Harborne, c. 1906
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