Selly Oak (Birmingham)

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Selly Oak is a residential suburban district in the southern part of the City of Birmingham, in central England. The suburb is bordered by Bournbrook and Selly Park to the north-east, Edgbaston and Harborne to the north, Weoley Castle and Weoley Hill to the west, and Bournville to the south. The Worcester and Birmingham Canal and the Birmingham Cross-City Railway Line run along the northern boundary of the area. It is both a UK Parliamentary constituency and a constituency district within the administrative structure of Birmingham City Council. It comprises the four smaller City electoral wards namely, Bournville, Brandwood, Billesley as well as the Selly Oak ward itself. Councillors from these wards sit on the district committee.

Selly Oak was formerly known as Escelie. The name Selly is derived from variants of "scelf-lei" or shelf-meadow, that is pasture land on a shelf or terrace of land, probably the glacial deposits formed after the creation and later dispersal of Lake Harrison during the Quaternary period. The Oak element of the name Selly Oak comes from a prominent Oak tree that formerly stood at the crossroads of the Bristol Road and Oak Tree Lane/Harborne Lane. The original spot is still commemorated by an old Victorian street sign above one of the shops on the north-side of Oak Tree Lane, which declares it to be "Oak Tree Place" and has the date of 1880.

for information on the history of Selly Oak see @:
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for information on services and see B.C.C. constituency profile @:
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for downloadable large-scale pdf map of constituency district also showing neighbourhood areas as used in drawing attached polygon see @:
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