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The Wren's Nest is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Dudley Metropolitan Borough, north west of the town centre of Dudley, in the West Midlands of England. It is one of the most important geological locations in Britain. [1] [2] It is also a Local Nature Reserve, [3] [4] a national nature reserve (NNR) and Scheduled ...
A mineral line once connected the local Wren's Nest quarry to the Seven Sister Tunnels and Dudley station as this 1930's O.S. map shows-. [2] The line was not present in 1903 as this-[3] 1903 O.S. map illustrates and was cut back by the Wren's Nest Estate by 1948 as this-[4] 1948 O.S map points out. It was used as a long siding by local freight ...
Mons Hill School was a secondary school on the Wren's Nest Estate in Dudley, England. It was opened in April 1965 as Wrens Nest Secondary School, to replace Wolverhampton Street School (which had been open since 1880) in Dudley town centre, and gave education to pupils aged 11 to 16 years (with the starting age rising to 12 from September 1972).
Dudley Tunnel is a canal tunnel on the Dudley Canal Line No 1, England. ... leads under Wren's Nest to two underground basins, east basin and west basin, and was used ...
Calymene Brongniart in Desmarest (1817), [1] sometimes erroneously spelled blumenbachi, is a species of trilobite discovered in the limestone quarries of the Wren's Nest in Dudley, England. Nicknamed the Dudley Bug or Dudley Locust [2] by 18th-century quarrymen it became a symbol of the town and featured on the Dudley County Borough Council ...
Three public houses served the estate: the Wren's Nest in Priory Road (built in the mid-1930s), the King Arthur on the corner of Birmingham New Road and Priory Road (built in 1939) and the Caves in Wrens Hill Road (built in the 1950s). However, the Wren's Nest (which was renamed the Duncan Edwards in 2001) was closed in late 2005 and was ...
This is a list of areas in the borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England. A. Amblecote; B Baptist End; Brierley Hill; Brockmoor ... Wren's Nest Estate; X
Abraham Darby was born near Wrens Nest Hill near the town of Dudley and it is claimed that he may have known about Dud Dudley's earlier work. [18] Dud Dudley's discovery, together with improvements to the local road network and the construction of the Dudley Canal, made Dudley into an important industrial and commercial centre. [11]