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With a superb location on the quiet Bishopton Road, Bearwood, within easy walking reach of the popular Warley Woods & Bearwood High Street, this 2 bedroom home has been tastefully nurtured over the last 5 years and now offers beautiful and modern living accommodation combined with character of the building, including high ceilings, large windows, feature fireplaces and wooden flooring. As you enter the property from the newly blue brick paved fore garden, the front door leads to the dining room that boasts bay window, arched recess and wooden flooring. A storage cupboard separates the dining room from the beautiful lounge that has feature fireplace, original wooden flooring and French doors giving access to the outbuildings (with electricity supply to) and stunning rear garden with newly fitted decked area and good sized lawn area. The kitchen, with white units, integrated dishwasher, built in oven with extractor hood and fridge/freezer, offers an pleasurable area to prepare food, with room for a breakfast bar. To the 1st floor, there is a large master bedroom with feature fireplace and storage cupboard. The 2nd bedroom is also a good size with a view over the rear garden. The beautiful bathroom which has just been redecorated throughout is very contemporary and stylish. This is an ideal opportunity for a buyer who wishes to be able to move into a property that is already to a show home standard.

The name Bearwood derives from Old English. Bearu might be translated as a 'grove', but the implication is that this was open woodland used as pig-pasture; wudu simply means a 'wood'. The name therefore seems to to describe a wood in a woodland area where pigs were grazed.
Alternatively, the name may be interpreted as 'bear wood'. Bears are thought to have become extinct in Britain by the end of the Roman occupation and before the Anglo-Saxon adventus. Had any survived locally it would be natural to record this as a significant element in the name of a wood. Certainly there was a wide area of dense forest in the Midlands in early Anglo-Saxon times. The reference to pigs, though perhaps less appealing, is more likely.
The name referred only to the woodland until the end of the 19th century when housing development began along Bearwood Road. And it may be that the district derives its name from the road rather than from the wood itself. Bearwood Road is now a busy shopping street just beyond Birmingham City boundary with easy bus transportation links into the city centre via Hagley Road (A456), one of the main arterial routes into Birmingham from the M5 at Junction 3.