Sandwell Valley

Sot's Hole is one of three Local Nature Reserves in the Country Park, and lies on the edge of the site on Dagger Lane/Church Vale, West Bromwich.

In an effort to protect and restore the reserve, a group of local people joined together in November 2005 and formed the Friends of Sot's Hole.

The highest point of Sandwell Valley is in Birmingham and is known as Hill Top, where the remains of a World War II gun emplacement can still be found there.

The Country Park's fauna and flora are studied by the Sandwell Valley Naturalists' Club (SandNats).

Every Saturday morning at 9.00am, the country park hosts a parkrun, a free, weekly timed 5 km run.

A Lane at Hamstead, Staffordshire by William Ellis (1747-1810), now in the Garman Ryan Collection at The New Art Gallery Walsall , shows the area in more rural times