Chadwick End
Chadwick End is a small village in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, situated 3 miles southeast of the large village of Knowle and forming part of the border with Warwickshire.
The name Chadwick means 'farm near a spring', and the village remains a farming community, almost contiguous with the historic Warwickshire village of Baddesley Clinton only half-a-mile to the south.
A mile from the village centre lies Chadwick Manor and its Estate, built in 1875 by the architect Edward Holmes. During the 1930s the Manor became a country house hotel and the estate a racing-stud both owned by the Stewart MacKay family. Upon the death in 1980 of champion racehorse owner and breeder Captain Norman "Norrie" Stewart MacKay, the estate was sold and the Manor converted to luxury flats.
The former Poor Clares convent on Rising Lane was founded in 1850; it has been converted into private flats since its closure in 2011.
