{"id":5088,"date":"2026-08-04T17:28:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birminghamname.com\/highbury-park-birmingham"},"modified":"2026-08-06T06:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:23:21","slug":"highbury-park-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birminghamname.com\/en\/highbury-park-birmingham","title":{"rendered":"Highbury Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"padrino-inject-root\">\n<div class=\"padrino-inject-inner\">\n<div data-padrino-shell=\"1\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/top-parks\">\u2190 Parks in Birmingham: current TOP 10 by reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>Park<\/strong> \u00b7 <span>Birmingham<\/span> \u00b7 \u2b50 9.3\/10 \u00b7 1362 reviews  \u00b7 <em>updated: 2026-08-04 15:57:39<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>Address:<\/strong> <span>Shutlock Ln, Birmingham B13 8QG, United Kingdom<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex is-nowrap wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"tel:+441214648728\">Call<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/dir\/?api=1&amp;destination=52.4393923,-1.9006435\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get directions<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_74 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6ab430186b40c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6ab430186b40c\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamname.com\/en\/highbury-park-birmingham\/#Highbury_Park_%E2%80%94_Joseph_Chamberlains_countryside_estate_left_to_the_city\" >Highbury Park \u2014 Joseph Chamberlain&#8217;s countryside estate, left to the city<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamname.com\/en\/highbury-park-birmingham\/#Highlights\" >Highlights<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamname.com\/en\/highbury-park-birmingham\/#What_youll_find\" >What you&#8217;ll find<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamname.com\/en\/highbury-park-birmingham\/#Things_to_do_%E2%80%94_and_who_its_for\" >Things to do \u2014 and who it&#8217;s for<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamname.com\/en\/highbury-park-birmingham\/#Getting_there_practical\" >Getting there &amp; practical<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamname.com\/en\/highbury-park-birmingham\/#When_to_visit\" >When to visit<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamname.com\/en\/highbury-park-birmingham\/#Good_to_know\" >Good to know<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamname.com\/en\/highbury-park-birmingham\/#Visitor_tips\" >Visitor tips<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamname.com\/en\/highbury-park-birmingham\/#Questions_answers\" >Questions &amp; answers<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamname.com\/en\/highbury-park-birmingham\/#Photos\" >Photos<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/birminghamname.com\/en\/highbury-park-birmingham\/#Visitor_reviews\" >Visitor reviews<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Highbury_Park_%E2%80%94_Joseph_Chamberlains_countryside_estate_left_to_the_city\"><\/span>Highbury Park \u2014 Joseph Chamberlain&#8217;s countryside estate, left to the city<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Highbury Park does not look designed, and that is precisely the point. Rolling meadow, ancient hedgerow, half-wild woodland, marshy hollows and a scatter of ponds run down the slope between Moseley and Kings Heath, with the Victorian bulk of Highbury Hall standing on the northern edge. This was Joseph Chamberlain&#8217;s private version of countryside inside the city \u2014 a working landscape of hay meadows and orchards dressed with Italian and Dutch gardens \u2014 and he left it to the people of Birmingham. What survives today is one of the least manicured and most biologically interesting large parks in the south of the city, with a community orchard growing in the middle of it.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Highlights\"><\/span>Highlights<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Highbury Hall<\/strong> \u2014 designed in 1878 by the architect John Henry Chamberlain (no relation) for Joseph Chamberlain, and the family home from 1880 until his death in 1914. The hall and its grounds are on the national Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade II, and the building currently sits on the Heritage at Risk Register.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highbury Community Orchard<\/strong> \u2014 a one-acre permaculture forest garden worked by volunteers since 2010 and constituted as a community interest company in 2012, growing heritage and modern apples, pears, plums and quinces alongside redcurrants, gooseberries, blackberries and tayberries, with a wildlife pond and resident bees.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Henburys pond<\/strong> \u2014 the south-western pool, named for a vanished house and estate, where kingfishers hunt sticklebacks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Long Pond<\/strong> \u2014 ringed with beech, ash and oak, its shallows carrying mosses and water starwort; foxes are regularly seen along its banks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The hay meadows<\/strong> \u2014 upper and lower meadows restored to flowering grassland, now among the richest habitat on the site.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ancient hedgerows and ridge and furrow<\/strong> \u2014 hawthorn hedges studded with mature oaks, and medieval plough ridges still readable in ten separate places across the park.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_youll_find\"><\/span>What you&#8217;ll find<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The character shifts every hundred metres: formal edges near the hall, then meadow, scrub, wet hollows, streams and pockets of old woodland whose spring flora \u2014 bluebell, pignut and dog&#8217;s mercury \u2014 marks it as long established. New surfaced woodland paths installed in 2021 opened up a great deal more of the park to people who cannot manage rough ground.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A lime avenue and specimen trees surviving from the Victorian estate planting.<\/li>\n<li>Oak Tree Pond, now largely dried out but still holding yellow flag and other wetland plants.<\/li>\n<li>Streams, marshland and the long fish pond threading the valley bottom.<\/li>\n<li>Picnic ground and open grass on the upper slopes, with views back towards the hall.<\/li>\n<li>Orchard features made for children \u2014 raised beds, a herb spiral, climbing logs, a mud kitchen and a dogwood den.<\/li>\n<li>A car park on the eastern side and several pedestrian entrances from the surrounding suburbs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Things_to_do_%E2%80%94_and_who_its_for\"><\/span>Things to do \u2014 and who it&#8217;s for<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nature watchers<\/strong> \u2014 a 2022 local sites assessment by the Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust put the whole park and estate forward as candidates for nature conservation designation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Birdwatchers<\/strong> \u2014 kingfisher, treecreeper, jay and nuthatch have all been recorded here, and a local enthusiast has published an illustrated e-book of the park&#8217;s birds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Families<\/strong> \u2014 the orchard&#8217;s play features and the open meadows suit small children better than any formal playground.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dog walkers<\/strong> \u2014 a genuinely varied circuit rather than a lap of mown grass, with woodland, meadow and water in one walk.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Volunteers and gardeners<\/strong> \u2014 the community orchard runs courses, work sessions and seasonal events, and the park has an active friends group.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Heritage visitors<\/strong> \u2014 the Chamberlain and Cadbury story is legible in the landscape itself, from the lime avenue to the terraced ground near the hall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Getting_there_practical\"><\/span>Getting there &amp; practical<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The park straddles the boundary between Moseley and Kings Heath in south Birmingham. Kings Heath station on the reopened Camp Hill line \u2014 which returned to passenger service in April 2026 after more than eight decades without trains \u2014 is the nearest rail access, and the frequent bus corridor between the city centre, Moseley and Kings Heath drops you a short walk away. There is a car park on the eastern side. Entry is free and the park is open space usable from dawn to dusk; the community orchard within it keeps its own opening times for volunteer sessions and events. Allow about ninety minutes to walk the park properly, and longer if you stop at the orchard or climb up to the hall side for the views.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"When_to_visit\"><\/span>When to visit<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Spring is the classic season: bluebells in the woodland remnants, blossom right through the orchard, and birdsong at its peak across the meadows and hedgerows. Summer brings the hay meadows into full flower and the fruit into swell, with butterflies over the grassland and dragonflies working the ponds; dusk in July and August is when the park&#8217;s five recorded bat species are most active. Autumn is harvest \u2014 apples, pears, plums and quinces in the orchard, heavy colour in the old hedgerow oaks, and fungi through the woodland. Winter opens up the views down the valley towards the hall and is the best time to read the medieval ridge and furrow in low, raking light, although the valley bottom is marshy by design and stays wet for weeks.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Good_to_know\"><\/span>Good to know<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>People have used this ground for a very long time. Bronze Age burnt mounds survive beside the stream, and medieval ridge and furrow is visible in ten places across the park. From at least the late 1600s until 1895 a substantial house called The Henbury&#8217;s stood here on a 45-acre estate of orchard, pools and farmland, occupied by Charles Ratheram; a refreshment room known as the Bonkoms later operated from what remained of it, and the land became public parkland in 1922. Joseph Chamberlain bought his own land here in 1878, commissioned Highbury from the architect John Henry Chamberlain, and had the grounds laid out from 1879 by the landscape designer Edward Milner as a &#8220;rus in urbe&#8221; \u2014 countryside in town. The result included Italian, Dutch and Elizabethan gardens, a rock garden, a lime avenue, a fish pond about 130 metres long, a brick bastion and a formal tea garden added in 1904. There were fourteen glasshouses by 1896 and twenty-five by 1903, twelve of them full of orchids, tended by twenty gardeners under head gardener Edward Cooper; they were demolished in the early twentieth century. The estate grew from around ten hectares to some forty-one by 1903, partly through purchase and partly by leasing land from Richard Cadbury&#8217;s neighbouring Uffculme estate, built in 1891. After Chamberlain&#8217;s death in 1914 the house served as a military hospital and then as a home for elderly women; most of the grounds opened as a public park in 1930, and Birmingham Corporation took on the hall in 1932. In 2025 the Chamberlain Highbury Trust secured a \u00a32 million National Heritage Lottery Fund grant for a three-year restoration of the Italian Garden, the Rock Garden and the Crucible Wall, much of it to be delivered by volunteers.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Visitor_tips\"><\/span>Visitor tips<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Use the woodland paths installed in 2021 for the easiest route towards the hall side of the park; they were built specifically to improve access.<\/li>\n<li>Check the community orchard&#8217;s open days before visiting \u2014 its gates are not unlocked continuously.<\/li>\n<li>Bring boots outside high summer: the valley bottom is marshland by design and holds water long after rain elsewhere has dried.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Questions_answers\"><\/span>Questions &amp; answers<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Who created Highbury Park?<\/strong> It grew out of Joseph Chamberlain&#8217;s Highbury estate together with neighbouring land including the former Henbury&#8217;s estate and ground leased from Richard Cadbury. Chamberlain left it to the people of Birmingham before his death in 1914, and most of it opened as a public park in 1930.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can I visit Highbury Hall?<\/strong> The hall is a separate historic building, currently on the Heritage at Risk Register and the subject of a lottery-funded restoration programme; it is not routinely open, but the park around it is always accessible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is the community orchard open to the public?<\/strong> It is run by a community interest company formed in 2012 and opens for volunteer sessions, courses and events rather than continuously.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is there an admission charge?<\/strong> No. The park is free public open space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What wildlife might I see?<\/strong> Kingfishers at the Henburys pond, plus foxes, badgers, muntjac deer, grey squirrels, slowworms, the city&#8217;s naturalised parakeets and five species of bat \u2014 common and soprano pipistrelle, noctule, brown long-eared and Daubenton&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is the park?<\/strong> The public park covers roughly 42 acres, part of a wider historic estate landscape of about 33 hectares in its present extent and considerably more in Chamberlain&#8217;s day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"entity-gallery\" class=\"padrino-entity-gallery\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photos\"><\/span>Photos<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.birminghamname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/08\/highbury-park-birmingham-1.jpg\" alt=\"Highbury Park\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.birminghamname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/08\/highbury-park-birmingham-2.jpg\" alt=\"Highbury Park\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.birminghamname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/08\/highbury-park-birmingham-3.jpg\" alt=\"Highbury Park\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.birminghamname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/08\/highbury-park-birmingham-4.jpg\" alt=\"Highbury Park\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.birminghamname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/08\/highbury-park-birmingham-5.jpg\" alt=\"Highbury Park\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.birminghamname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/08\/highbury-park-birmingham-6.jpg\" alt=\"Highbury Park\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<details>\n<summary>Show 1 more photos<\/summary>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.birminghamname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2026\/08\/highbury-park-birmingham-7.jpg\" alt=\"Highbury Park\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/details>\n<\/section>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments-area wp-block-group\">\n<h2 class=\"comments-title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Visitor_reviews\"><\/span>Visitor reviews<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ol class=\"comment-list\">\n<li id=\"comment-padrino-0\" class=\"comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\">\n<article id=\"div-comment-padrino-0\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>Isabelle Barrett<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n15 April 2026<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 10.0\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>A wonderful park for a walk or a run. Lots of winding paths and different areas of formal and informal planting and so on. Very dog-friendly \u2014 we even saw what looked like a sausage dog meet-up while we were there?? Ther\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"comment-padrino-1\" class=\"comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\">\n<article id=\"div-comment-padrino-1\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>Elisa Gava Williams<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n1 September 2025<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 10.0\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>It&#039;s lovely to walk through this park, especially now that the leaves are starting to change colour. There&#039;s a great variety of trees and paths here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"comment-padrino-2\" class=\"comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\">\n<article id=\"div-comment-padrino-2\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>Inna Bakum<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n1 September 2022<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 10.0\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>A clean and pleasant park. A wonderful place for evening walks<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"comment-padrino-3\" class=\"comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\">\n<article id=\"div-comment-padrino-3\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>Mark Johnson<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n15 June 2026<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 8.1\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>Highbury Hall is one of Birmingham&#039;s finest historic buildings and a place that leaves a lasting impression. Originally built as the home of Joseph Chamberlain, the hall combines wonderful Victorian architecture with bea\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"comment-padrino-4\" class=\"comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\">\n<article id=\"div-comment-padrino-4\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<footer class=\"comment-meta\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\">\n<b class=\"fn\"><span>Pyaro Babu<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-metadata\">\n10 May 2026<br \/>\n \u00b7 <span>\u2605 4.1\/10<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>Apart from this place, all the other places were poorly maintained. There was litter everywhere, and even the water looked disgusting. If anyone wants to spend time somewhere with more entertainment and cleanliness, I re\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><small>Reviews last updated: 2026-08-04 15:57:39<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><small>Data is refreshed monthly. 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