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Hockley, Sutton Coldfield — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Hockley is an inner-city district of Birmingham, a mile north-west of the centre, and Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter carries on inside it.
About Hockley
Where to stay in Hockley
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Rooms sit closer to the centre. Hockley stands about a mile north-west of Birmingham city centre and is served by the Jewellery Quarter station, so a bed booked in town leaves the workshops, Museum of the Jewellery Quarter and St Paul's Church a short ride out. Artisan workshops still line the streets.
Anyone here for Soho House, the Pen Museum or the Birmingham Assay Office does better on the Hockley side, where the original architecture survived and the walk between them is measured in streets rather than stops.
About Hockley
What are the main landmarks in Hockley?
The trades left the museums. Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, the Pen Museum and Coffin Works all keep the working equipment of the district's own trades, and the Birmingham Assay Office belongs to the same industry rather than to any museum circuit. Soho House is older.
St Paul's Church, Birmingham Orthodox Cathedral and the West Midlands Police Museum fill out the rest, and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery waits at the far end of the mile into town.
What is the history of Hockley?
Metal made this district. The Jewellery Quarter grew here rather than in the centre of Birmingham, and enough of the original architecture and small artisan workshops came through intact that the street pattern still reads as a place of trades. No charter date attaches to it.
What Hockley can show instead is fabric: workshop frontages, St Paul's Church, Soho House and the Birmingham Assay Office, all standing where the Jewellery Quarter took shape north-west of Birmingham city centre.
Where is Hockley?
Hockley lies about a mile north-west of Birmingham city centre, near enough that the Jewellery Quarter station serves the district and the centre alike.
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Updated August 2026