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Balsall CommonBalsall Common is a moderately-sized village in the borough of Solihull, nestling between the cities of Coventry and Birmingham in the West Midlands. It is currently undergoing rapid suburbanization. The village is of recent origin; most of the houses and shops were built in the 20th century. 200 years ago the village consisted of a couple of hamlets of about 6 to 12 houses each and a few scattered cottages - as shows. In the 1930's there began the development which linked these isolated buildings, but it was not until after the Second World War (1939-1945) that the village really began to grow. It is served by a railway station on the Coventry-Birmingham line. The station is called Berkswell after a much older, and now smaller village to the north.
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