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==Geography==

==Geography==

Smethwick lies in the far-south of [[Staffordshire]] and is part of the Offlow Hundred, just north of the a salient containing the Harborne area of [[Birmingham]]. [[Warley Wigorn]] lies to the west; Soho, which is east of the town centre, is a residential area split between Smethwick and Birmingham, whose city centre lies 3 ½ miles to the east.

Smethwick lies in the far-south of [[Staffordshire]] and is part of the Offlow Hundred, just north of the a salient containing the Harborne area of [[Birmingham]]. [[Warley Wigorn]] lies to the west; Soho, which is east of the town centre, is a residential area straddling the Staffordshire-[[Warwickshire]] border and split between Smethwick and Birmingham, whose city centre lies 3 ½ miles to the east.

A former bakery in the Bearwood area of Smethwick marks the site of a shire oak, where Staffordshire traditionally borders [[Shropshire#detatched|Shropshire detatched]] to the north-west and a detached part of [[Worcestershire]] to the south-west. The site is located at the junction between Three Shires Oak Road and Thimblemill Road.<ref>[https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/homes-and-property/chance-buy-site-three-shires-9681951 Chance to buy the site where Three Shires Oak once stood]</ref>

A former bakery in the Bearwood area of Smethwick marks the site of a shire oak, where Staffordshire traditionally borders [[Shropshire#detatched|Shropshire detatched]] to the north-west and a detached part of [[Worcestershire]] to the south-west. The site is located at the junction between Three Shires Oak Road and Thimblemill Road.<ref>[https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/homes-and-property/chance-buy-site-three-shires-9681951 Chance to buy the site where Three Shires Oak once stood]</ref>