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'''Smethwick''' (pronounced ''smethick'') is a town in south-east [[Staffordshire]] which makes up part of the [[Black Country]]. Smethwick lies around 3 ½ miles from central [[Birmingham]] in [[Warwickshire]]. Smethwick has a population of around 50,000. The [[M5 motorway]] demarcates the western limit of the town. Among its most notable buildings is the Smethwick Old Church, the oldest surviving building in the Smethwick ward, which was consecrated in 1732. The world's first working engine, the Smethwick Engine, was made in the town in the 1770s.
'''Smethwick''' (pronounced ''smethick'') is a town in south-east [[Staffordshire]] which makes up part of the [[Black Country]]. Smethwick lies around 3 ½ miles west of central [[Birmingham]] in [[Warwickshire]]. Smethwick has a population of around 50,000. The [[M5 motorway]] demarcates the western limit of the town. Among its most notable buildings is the Smethwick Old Church, the oldest surviving building in the Smethwick ward, which was consecrated in 1732. The world's first working engine, the Smethwick Engine, was made in the town in the 1770s.
For local government purposes, Smethwick is administered by [[Sandwell Council]].
For local government purposes, Smethwick is administered by [[Sandwell Council]].
==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.
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>
[[Category:Settlements in Staffordshire]]
[[Category:Settlements in Staffordshire]]