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Resort hotel and spa with three golf courses: the Brabazon, the PGA National and The Derby.
The Belfry is a golf resort and hotel in Wishaw, Warwickshire, close to Sutton Coldfield, England, located approximately 8 miles from the centre of Birmingham. It was acquired by KSL Capital Partners in August 2012.
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A large flooded gravel pit forming numerous large boating, fishing and recreational lakes and field areas. Plus children's playgrounds and activities, a visitor centre and coffee shop.
160 hectare (400 acre) nature reserve in former gravel pits, with meadow and wetland habitats for bird-watching.
Theme park with rollercoasters for teens and Thomas the Tank Engine and zoo for younger children.
This bastion was the seat of the Kingdom of Mercia from 781 AD, but this was a simple earthwork and palisade wrecked by the Vikings then the Danes. A stone motte-and-bailey castle appeared around 1080, extended in later centuries. It came into public ownership in the 1890s and was refurbished as a museum.
A church was established here in the 8th century, with the present building from the 14th with a makeover in the 1850s. It remains an active Anglican church.