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About Dudley
Dudley is a town in the West Midlands
of England. The town has a population of 186,513 (2001
census). Since 1974 it has been the administrative
headquarters of the Dudley metropolitan borough. Dudley,
part of the West Midlands conurbation, is located
south of Wolverhampton and is a part of the Black
Country. The town centre is traditionally part of
an exclave of Worcestershire entirely surrounded by
Staffordshire. Dudley has a history dating back to
medieval times; a castle has stood in Dudley since
the 8th century, the present castle dates from the
13th century, and provided the centre around which
the town grew. (see Dudley Castle) The town industrialised
rapidly in the 18th and 19th centuries, and its population
grew dramatically. Due to its heavy and highly polluting
industries it became a central part of the Black Country.
The main industries in Dudley included coal and limestone
mining. Other industries included iron, steel, engineering,
metallurgy, glass cutting, textiles and leatherworking.
Most of these industries have declined in recent decades.
Of historical significance, the first Newcomen steam
engine was installed at the Conygree coalworks a mile
east of Dudley Castle in 1712. Dudley was mostly made
up of farms and factories surrounded by the occasional
cottage until the 19th century, when many rows of
terraced houses with terrible sanitation were built.
These in turn were cleared between the 1920s and 1960s
to make way for council owned houses and flats. The
Dudley area also consists of many privately owned
houses including some late 19th/early 20th century
homes which are still standing but have been modernised
to keep up with modern sanitation standards. The first
major council housing development was the Priory Estate,
near the border of Sedgley, where more than 3,000
houses were built during the 1930s. Over the next
40 years, Dudley council built many more housing estates.
These include Wrens Nest, Russells Hall, Bramford
and Rosland. The largest private housing development
in the Dudley borough is the Northway estate, in the
Sedgley area, which was developed in the late 1960s
and early 1970s. The town is home to Dudley Zoo, and
the Black Country Living Museum. The
original County Borough of Dudley (created in 1894)
included the town of Dudley and the villages of Woodside
and Netherton. In 1966, the county borough was expanded
to include the urban district councils of Brierley
Hill, Sedgley and Coseley. As all of these areas were
part of Staffordshire, Dudley was transferred from
Worcestershire to the county of Staffordshire. Dudley
was further expanded in 1974 to become a metropolitan
borough, having taken in the metropolitan boroughs
of Halesowen and Stourbridge (both in Worcestershire).
Since then, Dudley has been part of the West Midlands
county.
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