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Little Aston Park is a private residential estate, ranked in the top ten most expensive areas in England and Wales, set in a woodland setting, located approximately seven miles north of Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

in Little Aston

Little Aston

Little Aston is an affluent area of the district of Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England. At the last UK census there were 935 homes in the village, well over 10% of which were multi-million pound properties...

. It is one of the most prestigious localities in the Midlands

English Midlands

The Midlands, or the English Midlands, is the traditional name for the area comprising central England that broadly corresponds to the early medieval Kingdom of Mercia. It borders Southern England, Northern England, East Anglia and Wales. Its largest city is Birmingham, and it was an important...

consisting of approximately one hundred multi-million pound individual architect designed houses, centred around the historic rhododendron

Rhododendron

Rhododendron is a genus of over 1 000 species of woody plants in the heath family, most with showy flowers...

lined Roman Road

Icknield Street

Icknield Street or Ryknild Street is a Roman road in Britain that runs from the Fosse Way at Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire to Templeborough in South Yorkshire...

. The estate features a championship golf club, Little Aston Golf Club, a church, St. Peters Church and is within easy walking distance of Sutton Park

Sutton Park

Sutton Park, in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England, is one of the largest urban parks in Europe and the largest outside a capital city; it is larger than Richmond Park in London....

- Europe's largest urban park. The entrance/exit roundabout

Roundabout

A roundabout is the name for a road junction in which traffic moves in one direction around a central island. The word dates from the early 20th century. Roundabouts are common in many countries around the world...

to the Park is also sponsored by Bentley

Bentley

Bentley Motors Limited is a British manufacturer of automobiles founded on 18 January 1919 by Walter Owen Bentley known as W.O. Bentley or just "W O". Bentley had been previously known for his range of rotary aero-engines in World War I, the most famous being the Bentley BR1 as used in later...

and Lamborghini

Lamborghini

Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A., commonly referred to as Lamborghini , is an Italian car manufacturer. The company was founded by manufacturing magnate Ferruccio Lamborghini in 1963, with the objective of producing a refined grand touring car to compete with established offerings from marques like...

, whilst the official Stratstone Ferrari

Ferrari

Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles as Ferrari S.p.A. in 1947...

and Maserati

Maserati

Maserati is an Italian luxury car manufacturer established on December 1, 1914, in Bologna. The company's headquarters is now in Modena, and its emblem is a trident. It has been owned by the Italian car giant Fiat S.p.A. since 1993...

dealership is within one mile.

"A wealthy world away

Sutton is less than ten miles from Birmingham, but wealthy enclaves such as Little Aston and Four Oaks are a world away from its workaday neighbours.

Perched on the edge of the wilds of Sutton Park, homes on these private estates are a mecca for businessmen and footballers."

Birmingham Post Property Section, 30 September 2006.

The management company, LAPRA Limited (Little Aston Park Residents Association) maintain the private road

Private road

A private road is a road owned and maintained by a private individual, organization, or company rather than by a government.Consequently, unauthorized use of the road may be considered trespassing, and some of the usual rules of the road may not apply...

s, gates and employ security officers to ensure that trespassers are removed from the estate.

Within the last ten years several developers have acquired land and built new houses; some residents have demolished their existing houses to build larger properties and there are examples of houses being completely rebuilt with new outer facing bricks and major modifications. Many residents have also installed electric gates around their property to bolster their existing security measures.

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