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John Morris Jones Walkway

footpath in Birmingham, England

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ6249499 ↗
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John Morris Jones Walkway (grid reference SP099818) is a path on the River Cole in Hall Green, Birmingham, England (in an area once called Sarehole). It is part of the Shire Country Park.

John Morris Jones was a headmaster of George Dixon Junior School in west Birmingham from 1960 to 1980. He wrote extensively about the local history of the South Birmingham area, particularly Yardley, Hall Green and Sarehole.

See also

Hall Green and Hereabout, John Morris JONES, ed.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where John, Morris and Jones can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “John Morris Jones Walkway” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.