Catherine-de-Barnes

Catherine-de-Barnes (known to locals as Catney) is a small village within the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the English county of West Midlands.

However it is mainly a later settlement probably dating from the building of the Grand Union Canal there and the present St Catherine's church, now a village hall, was built by Joseph Gillott in 1879.

[1] In 1907, a "fever hospital" was built in Henwood Lane as a joint operation of the Solihull and Meriden Councils for isolating patients with infectious diseases such as diphtheria, typhoid fever and smallpox.

The north-south B4438 Catherine de Barnes Lane starts 250m east of the village, leading past Bickenhill, over the A45 to the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham Airport and Birmingham International station all of which are just 3 miles to the north.

The main bus route through the village (from 28 August 2022) Stagecoach 82 which operates hourly Mon-Sat between Coventry and Solihull.

Founding stone at St Catherine's Church at Catherine de Barnes