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	Sarehole
		In the 1930's this was a quiet village in the Warwickshire countryside.
		The outside of Sarehole Mill is concealed by trees on all sides.
		Sarehole Mill is open to the public, as a museum showing how a water mill operated.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /heartofengland2/tolkien/sarehole.htm (510 words)

	Sarehole
		Sarehole was the small hamlet that J.R.R. Tolkien grew up in between 1896 and 1900; it is now part of the city of Birmingham.
		It is south of the City Centre and about a mile west of the A34, the Stratford Road, and is on the border between Hall Green and Moseley.
		At one of these meetings it was suggested that an event should be held at Sarehole Mill to promote the concept of the Park and the associated centre.
	www.tolkiensociety.org /t_park (509 words)

	Sarehole Mill
		Sarehole Mill was built in 1765 on the site of Biddle's Mill, which dated back to 1540.
		For most of Sarehole's working life it was used to grind corn, but in the industrial revolution it was used for blade grinding and metal rolling as well.
		Sarehole Mill is a fine example of one of more than fifty water mills that existed in Birmingham at one time.
	www.birmingham.gov.uk /sarehole (171 words)

	Local History
		The valley at Sarehole is wider and raising the water level to provide and good fall and worthwhile reserve would require a long dam; the valley of the Coldbath Brook is narrower and steeper, more easily dammed - it had four pools in its 1.5 miles by the late C18th.
		Sarehole Corn Mill, a compact holding extending to 7 acres 2 rods 39 perches, and including a brick-built and tiled house containing three bedrooms, parlour, kitchen, scullery, and boxroom, and the Mill premises, comprising Breast Wheel, driving two pairs of 4 ft. stones, three mill floors, Bake House, Stable and Pigsties.
		Sarehole Millpool has been partly cleared and is patronised by mallards; there is sufficient water from Coldbath Brook, now the sole source, to turn the rebuilt main-wheel and some restored machinery for limited periods.
	www.bgfl.org /bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/teacher/history/jm_jones/sarehole/page2.htm (2865 words)

	Sarehole
		Sarehole was the small hamlet that J.R.R. Tolkien grew up in between 1896 and 1900; it is now part of the city of Birmingham.
		It is south of the City Centre and about a mile west of the A34, the Stratford Road, and is on the border between Hall Green and Moseley.
		At one of these meetings it was suggested that an event should be held at Sarehole Mill to promote the concept of the Park and the associated centre.
	www.tolkiensociety.info /t_park (509 words)

	Books \| Tolkien's shire
		But he was much more interested in talking about Sarehole, where he had grown up between the ages of four and eight during the last four years of the 19th century.
		It is a long road from his Sarehole days to his centenary and it has put him in some very strange company.
		Sarehole was pre-eminent because it was rented from 1756-61 by Matthew Boulton, James Watt's partner in developing steam power.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4300841-99931,00.html (2883 words)

	Tolkien Biography
		This is a modern aerial view of Sarehole, showing the Mill in the foreground, with the mill pond in the center of the picture.
		Sarehole lies on the North-West edge of what used to be the Forest of Arden.
		Sarehole is very close to Hall Green railway station and the railway line which runs a few miles through the countryside to Stratford-upon-Avon.
	home.freeuk.com /webbuk2/tolkien-biography.htm (3717 words)

	Tolkien Birmingham - Sarehole
		Sarehole is clearly the inspiration for the 'Shire' in Lord of the Rings with the mill being near Bilbo's home at Bag End.
		Today Sarehole is a pleasant part of Hall Green some four miles from the city centre.
		Sarehole Mill is just 30 minutes from Stratford-on-Avon and you don't need a tourism degree to predict exciting times ahead for Sarehole, the natural home of Tolkien.
	www.bplphoto.co.uk /TolkiensBirmingham/TolkienSarehole.htm (508 words)

	The Annals of Middle-earth
		Additionally, the Shire is modeled after Sarehole, a region in England where he lived as a youth.
		Tolkien remembers the old man who owned it as having a fl beard, and the son, whom he and his brother Hillary nicknamed the White Ogre, would chase them away from their hiding places where they liked to 'spy' on the millers.
		Minas Morgul are said to have been influenced by a pair of towers that were near Tolkien's heme in Sarehole.
	members.tripod.com /~eruantalon/tolkien/influence.html (508 words)

	Three Rings for the Elven Kings
		This map, which corresponds to the central portion of the previous one, is based around Sarehole Mill (marked with a large ‘M’), which all agree to have been the inspiration for Sandyman’s Mill in Hobbiton.
		Sarehole Mill is located at the junction of this ancient route and Wake Green Road, itself an old trackway.
		The position of Sarehole in central England exactly corresponds with that of Hobbiton (which is not quite the case with Oxford).
	www.angelfire.com /rings/three/geo.htm (709 words)

	Sarehole Mill
		Sarehole Mill offers a range of FREE teaching sessions to Birmingham schools, covering areas across the curriculum.
		Start in Sarehole Mill to learn how people in the past have used rivers and the water cycle to provide energy to produce food and other goods.
		Children follow the process of bread making from the planting of the seed to the finished loaf, helping the Little Red Hen to find all the things needed.
	www.schoolsliaison.org.uk /2004/sarehole/teachsess.htm (515 words)

	etyres mobile tyres fitting service in Sarehole Hall Green Birmingham
		Sarehole (Grid reference SP099818) is an area in Hall Green, Birmingham, England (formerly in Worcestershire, but transferred to the city in 1911).
		Sarehole, a name no longer used in addresses, was the area close to the River Cole, from the ford at Green Lane, southwards for about one mile, to the Dingles.
		Sarehole Mill, which also influenced the young Tolkien, is a water-driven mill, now a museum, within the Shire Country Park.
	www.etyres.co.uk /town-descriptions/tyres-sarehole-hall-green-birmingham.htm (492 words)

	BBC - Birmingham - Features - Touring Tolkien’s Past
		On Sunday 15th October there’s a bus tour which explores JRR Tolkien’s connections with Birmingham and the inspiration for the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
		Stops include; Sarehole Mill and Moseley Bog, the childhood playgrounds of Tolkien, the exterior of 264 Wake Green Road and 4 Highfield Road, his former homes, and the extraordinary 30m Perott’s Folly Tower, which is said to have inspired the ‘Two Towers of Gondor’.
		Sarehole is one of only two surviving watermills in Birmingham.
	www.bbc.co.uk /birmingham/content/articles/2006/10/10/tolkien_tour_feature.shtml (290 words)

	John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
		At three years old Tolkien came to Birmingham with his mother and brother Hilary to visit his grand parents, it was at this time that Tolkiens father died and his mother saw no reason to return to South Africa.
		This pond was once used as an emergency supply of water for nearby Sarehole Mill, Tolkien and his brother were always found around this area and were always being chased away by the local miller, he was always covered in white dust and the boys described him as the white Orge.
		Moseley Bog was nine hectares of dense damp woodland, and is understood to be the inspiration behind the 'Old Forest', and the miller inspiration for 'Wizard Gandalf'.
	www.birminghamuk.com /tolkien.htm (432 words)

	Pentrace Article # 347:- On the Trail of Tolkien: Part 2: Tolkien's Inspirations in Birmingham Locations
		The tiny village of Sarehole, young Ronald Tolkien’s first home in England, was the model for Hobbiton and The Shire in ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’.
		Sarehole Mill was restored and opened as a museum by Birmingham City Council in the 1960's, and J.R.R. Tolkien contributed to its restoration.
		Visitors to Sarehole Mill today will see an attractive group of buildings, including a bakehouse, a metal workshop, a granary and the mill itself, all arranged around a cobbled courtyard.
	www.pentrace.net /penbase/Data_Returns/full_article.asp?id=347 (3659 words)

	Literary Tours: JRR Tolkien Sarehole tour - authatrails.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Tolkien said openly that the hobbits were inspired by the people who lived around Sarehole in his childhood, farming folk, unsophisticated perhaps, but shrewd and indomitable in time of trouble.
		Today the Cole Valley and Sarehole make a green island in the tree-tangled hinterland of the city, with its dense green woods and river meadows around the Mill and fields, so like the valley of Tom Bombadil.
		Tolkien would no doubt have been happy to know that this haven is being preserved and cared for as part of the heritage of the people of Birmingham, in no small part thanks to the interest inspired by his writing.
	www.authatrails.com /tolkien/sarehole.html (415 words)

	A Recap: Fun at the Mill... Again! - Press Release from The Tolkien Society - The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and ...
		The Tolkien Society were successful in applying for a grant of £4,900 from the National Lottery’s Awards for All programme to stage this second Tolkien Weekend event at Sarehole Mill.
		It was decided that this park should be known as The Tolkien Country Park because of the importance of the area to world-famous author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
		The plan is to create a linear park along the course of the River Cole past Sarehole Mill, which is believed to be the last functioning water mill in Birmingham.
	www.theonering.com /articles/2921,1.html (711 words)

	UK Nature Reserve Renamed The Shire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		They first lived in the hamlet of Sarehole, which Tolkien said were some of the happiest years of his youth.
		Sarehole is supposed to have been the model for The Shire, home to the Frodo Baggins and the other hobbits.
		Finally Sarehole Mill is seen as being the mill in Hobbiton.
	books.monstersandcritics.com /news/printer_3266.php (308 words)

	Frequently asked questions - authatrails.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Oxford is OK for public transport, also Sarehole and Edgbaston, but you will probably need a car to get to Cheddar, Holderness, and Uffington.
		Sarehole is largely accessible, although the interior of the mill is not accessible upstairs, but Moseley Bog is not accessible.
		Although Uffington is near Oxford, it is unlikely that you will have the time (or the energy!) to do this tour the same day as Oxford 1 and 2).
	www.authatrails.co.uk /faq.html (344 words)

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