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Selly Oak
Selly Oak is an industrial and residential area that was in Worcestershire until the creation of Greater Birmingham in 1911 when it was transferred to Warwickshire. It is now in the City of Birmingham Metropolitan Borough, England. The area gives its name to Selly Oak ward and includes the neighbourhoods of: Bournbrook, Selly Park, and Ten Acres. There are three councillors: Karen McCarthy, Brigid Jones, and Changese Khan. The adjoining wards of Edgbaston and Harborne are to the north of the Bourn Brook, which was the former County Boundary, and to the south; Weoley, and Bournville. A district committee serves the four wards of Selly Oak, Billesley, Bournville and Brandwood. The same wards form the Birmingham Selly Oak (UK Parliament constituency) represented by Steve McCabe (Labour). Selly Oak is connected to Birmingham by the Pershore Road (A441) and the Bristol Road (A38). The Worcester and Birmingham Canal and the Birmingham Cross-City Railway Line run across the Local District Centre.
Selly Oak was blighted in the late 20th century by a road-widening scheme for the Bristol Road (A38). Many historic buildings, the offices of the Birmingham Battery and Metal Company and the Westley Richards Gun Factory, were demolished and other significant buildings seem under threat. However, plans for a major regeneration of the area were confirmed in 2005 and a new 1.5 km stretch of road was opened in August 2011 to access the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. The relief road can’t be continued until the current remediation and construction work is completed. Eventually this should alleviate the heavily congested Bristol Road through the Selly Oak and Bournbrook district retail centre.〔Birmingham City Council: Shopping and Local Centres SPD (2012) pp6-9, map 47〕 The work has involved the construction of the Ariel aqueduct to carry the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, and a railway viaduct for the Cross-City Line. This scheme has paved the way for the enhancement of the Battery Retail Park shopping complex and a number of familiar ‘High Street’ shops have opened stores. A new Life Sciences campus will be created for the University of Birmingham. Arrangements have been negotiated for reinstating part of the Dudley No. 2 Canal through the former Birmingham Battery and Metal Company site, as part of a long-term plan to re-establish the canal route to Halesowen and the Black Country.
The 2001 Population Census recorded that 25,792 people were living in Selly Oak with a population density of 4,236 people per km² compared with 3,649 people per km² for Birmingham. It had a below-average percentage of ethnic minorities with only 15.9% of the population consisting of ethnic minorities compared with 29.6% for Birmingham in general. Due to the proximity of the University of Birmingham there are a large number of students in the area. This can distort figures based on electoral roles because some students are not eligible to vote, and some who are eligible don’t register. The term dates are for three sessions totaling 30 weeks. With month long breaks at Christmas and Easter and a three month gap during the summer this has had a significant impact on the community and retailers in areas that are densely populated with students.
==Toponymy==
Selly Oak was recorded in Domesday Book as Escelie.〔Morris, John (General Editor): Domesday Book 16 Worcestershire (Phillimore 1982) Land of William son of Ansculf: 23,1 Selly (Oak) and Bartley (Green); 23,5 Selly (Oak) held as two manors Robert holds from William〕 The name Selly is derived from variants of "scelf-lei" or shelf-meadow,〔Maxam, Andrew (2004) ''Selly Oak & Weoley Castle on Old Picture Postcards: Reflections of a Bygone Age'', (Yesterday's Warwickshire Series; No. 20); Introduction ISBN 1-900138-82-4)〕 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. Another source for the name comes from OE ‘sele’ meaning a building, or a hall.〔Hooke, Della: The Anglo-Saxon Landscape – The Kingdom of the Hwicce (MUP 1985) p. 123〕
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