The area is regarded as the site of the original Anglo-Saxon settlement which gave the city of Birmingham its name.

Highgate is also home to the Birmingham Sports Centre and Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College.

Birmingham Sports Centre is to be demolished and a new Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College is being constructed at Haden Circus.

[1]Highgate was one of five areas surrounding Birmingham city centre earmarked in the 1950s for comprehensive redevelopment as "new towns"; the others were Newtown, Lee Bank, Ladywood and Nechells Green.

[2] Elevation Western parts of Highgate are on the River Rea plain at about 109 metres (358 ft) above sea level.

The land rises to the east, reaching 135 metres (443 ft) at the Highgate Middleway south of Leopold Street.

[4] The pasture had fine views over the town and Birmingham Corporation bought the land and laid out lawns, ornamental flower beds and shrubs for a public park.

Highgate Park was home to Birmingham's King Edward VII Memorial from 1951 until its relocation to Centenary Square in 2010.

The Alcester Street entrance porch is terracota-faced and has spandrels featuring relief figures of boys representing industry and rural poverty or farming.

[8] Stratford House, is a Grade II* listed building dating from 1601, near to Camp Hill traffic island.

[9] Samuel Heath & Sons began as a brass founder and have been based at the Cobden Works on Leopold Street since the business was established in 1820.

[10][11] Next to St Albans Church on Conybere Street are Lench's Trust almshouses and warden's house built in 1879 and designed by J A Chatwin.