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Oldbury is a market town in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell, in the county of the West Midlands, England.It is the administrative centre of the borough. At the 2011 census, the town had a population of 13,606, [2] while the 2017 population of the wider built-up area was estimated at 25,488. [3]
Langley Green is an area of the town of Oldbury, on the B4169 road, in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the English county of West Midlands. The appropriate ward of Sandwell is simply called Langley. The population at the 2011 census was 12,969. [1] Langley Green has a library, a theatre and a railway station called Langley Green ...
[10] [11] Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, which was formed in 1974, was initially based at West Bromwich Town Hall [12] but moved to modern facilities at the new Sandwell Council House on the east side of Freeth Street, Oldbury in 1989. [13] The municipal buildings in Oldbury went on to serve as the local offices of Citizens Advice. [14]
Tividale Park has been known as Derygate (Deer Gate) Park; it can be traced back as far as 1327 when Tividale was known as Derickton Cross. [2]Tividale was largely developed from the mid 19th century around the main road from Oldbury and Dudley, on the border of Dudley and Tipton.
Brandhall is a suburb of Oldbury in the south of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, bordering Birmingham and Halesowen.The development of the area commenced during the 1930s with the construction of several hundred private houses along the Hagley Road and Wolverhampton Road, as well as several side roads leading off the main dual carriageways.
The earliest record so far found of a church at Oldbury-on-the-Hill occurs in 1273, when there is a mention of a ‘free chapel’ there. [24] In 1291, the Rector of Great Badminton had a portion of 8s. and 6d. in the chapel of Oldbury. [11] The oldest part of the present medieval parish church of Oldbury is estimated to date from the 14th ...
A civil parish of Warley was created on 25 March 1884 by the merger of the Warley Salop parish with parts of the parishes of Warley Wigorn and Ridgacre.On 30 September 1908 the parish was abolished, becoming part of Oldbury, [1] although the Warley name was retained as a district of Oldbury, which was developed for housing after 1920.
It is home to the nearby Oldbury nuclear power station, a Magnox power station which opened in 1967 and ceased operation on 29 February 2012. The village is the site of an Iron Age fort called Oldbury Camp. [2] Older maps refer to this as a Roman camp and also refer to another Roman camp surrounding St Arilda's Church. [3]