Hockley, West Midlands

Hockley is a central inner-city district in the city of Birmingham, England. It lies about one mile (1.5 kilometres) northwest of the city centre, and is served by the Jewellery Quarter station. Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter continues to thrive in Hockley, and much of the original architecture and small artisan workshops have survived intact.

This article is about the district of inner-city Birmingham. For the village 12 mi (19 km) southeast of Birmingham, see Hockley Heath.

Hockley
Hockley
Location within the West Midlands
OS grid referenceSP060879
Metropolitan borough
Shire county
  • Warwickshire
Metropolitan county
  • West Midlands
Region
  • West Midlands
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Postcode districtB18
PoliceWest Midlands
FireWest Midlands
AmbulanceWest Midlands

Hockley is the location of the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter and Birmingham Mint. Vittoria Street in Hockley is home to Birmingham Institute of Art and Design's Jewellery School, and The Big Peg arts & crafts workshop cluster is nearby. Housing in the area is generally characterised by well-built Victorian villas and terraces.

The Hockley Flyover murals at the "Hockley flyover" road interchange are an exemplary example of brutalist late-modernist concrete architecture and are grade II listed.

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