Place:Lye and Wollescote, Worcestershire, England

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NameLye and Wollescote
TypeUrban district
Located inWorcestershire, England     (1897 - 1933)
See alsoLye, Worcestershire, Englandsettlement making up the urban district in 1897
Wollescote, Worcestershire, Englandsettlement making up the urban district in 1897
Stourbridge, Worcestershire, Englandmunicipal borough which absorbed the urban district in 1933
Dudley (metropolitan borough), West Midlands, Englandmetropolitan borough covering the area since 1974

Lye and Wollescote was an urban district in the northern part of Worcestershire, England which was the administrative organ for the settlements of Lye and Wollescote, both of which had formerly been in the large ancient parish of Oldswinford. The urban district lasted from 1897 until 1933 when it was absorbed into the municipal borough of Stourbridge. In 1974 the whole area was transferred to Dudley Metropolitan Borough in the new county of the West Midlands.

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