Cheswick Green

Cheswick Green is a village and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the English county of West Midlands, incorporating the nearby hamlet of Illshaw Heath.

[1] The settlement lies approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) south west of Solihull town centre.

[2] It borders Dickens Heath and Monkspath to the north, and Earlswood and Warings Green to the south.

[3] The hamlet of Illshaw heath, which predates Cheswick Green, was home of the de Yelschawe family from which it takes its name.

[5] The village of Cheswick Green was a planned settlement from the late-1960s and is large enough to sustain some shops including a newsagent, a post office, a pharmacy and a hairdresser as well as a pub, doctor's surgery, village hall and a school.