Place:Ettingshall, Staffordshire, England

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Ettingshall is an area of Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands, England, and is a ward of Wolverhampton City Council. In 2011 the ward had a population of approximately 13,500.

Ettingshall was mentioned as an ancient manor in the Domesday Book of 1086. The surrounding areas of Priestfield, Parkfield, Lanesfield and Millfields are believed to have been property of the manor.

From the 18th century onwards, Ettingshall became heavily industrialised as a result of the Industrial Revolution. Until April 1979, an area of wasteland on the southside of Millfields Road was the location of the Bilston Steelworks and old Bilston quarries.

Geography

Ettingshall is situated 1.25 miles to the south-east of the city centre and centred on the A4039 and A4126 roads. It is situated on the western edge of the former Borough of Bilston and began as an expansion of the Sedgley village of Ettingshall in the Victorian era, becoming part of the new Coseley Urban District council in 1897.

In 1966, the bulk of the old Ettingshall village was absorbed into the borough of Wolverhampton, along with parts of Brierley village, while most of the rest of Coseley--along with Brierley Hill and the bulk of neighbouring Sedgley--was incorporated into an expanded Dudley Borough.

A 19th century description

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Ettingshall from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"ETTINGSHALL, a hamlet in Sedgley parish and a chapelry in Sedgley and Wolverhampton parishes, Stafford[shire]. The hamlet lies near the Birmingham and Stafford railway, 2 miles SSE of Wolverhampton; and has a station, of the name of Ettingshall Road, on the railway, and a post office under Wolverhampton. The chapelry includes the hamlet, and was constituted in 1841. Population: 3,210. Houses: 626. The property is not much divided. Many of the inhabitants are miners. The living is a [perpetual] curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value: £200. Patron: the Bishop of Lichfield. The church was built in 1838; stands over the mines; is constructed partly of timber; and contains 926 sittings."

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