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National Express West Midlands operates most of the major bus routes in Birmingham and the West Midlands. The number 11 outer circle bus route, run by National Express West Midlands, which operates in both clockwise [ 323 ] and anti-clockwise [ 324 ] directions around the outskirts of the city, is the longest urban bus route in Europe, being ...
Wednesfield (/ ˈ w ɛ n z. f iː l d /) is a town and historic village in the City of Wolverhampton, in the county of the West Midlands, England, It is 2 miles (3.2 km) east-northeast of Wolverhampton city centre and about 10 miles (16 km) from Birmingham and is part of the West Midlands conurbation. It was historically within the county of ...
The city is governed by Coventry City Council, and the West Midlands Combined Authority. [ 9 ] Formerly part of Warwickshire until 1451, and again from 1842 to 1974, Coventry had a population of 345,324 at the 2021 census, [ 1 ] making it the tenth largest city in England and the 13th largest in the United Kingdom.
Map of West Midlands, showing urban areas in grey and metropolitan district boundaries Population density map. The West Midlands is a landlocked county that borders the counties of Warwickshire to the east, Worcestershire to the south, and Staffordshire to the north and west.
The West Midlands in the Early Middle Ages (Leicester UP, 1992). Hilton, R. H. A Medieval Society: The West Midlands at the End of the Thirteenth Century (1987) online review; Jones, Peter M. Industrial Enlightenment: Science, technology and culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands, 1760–1820 (2017) online. Money, John.
Wellesbourne is a large village in the civil parish of Wellesbourne and Walton, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. In the 2021 census the parish had a population of 7,283, a significant increase from 5,849 In the 2011 census. [1]
Willenhall Library (formerly Willenhall Town Hall). By 1901, the population of "Willenhall, minus Short Heath" was 18,515. [14]Football came to Willenhall on 4 September 1905 when Spring Bank Stadium was opened in Temple Road, serving Willenhall Swifts F.C., whose first opponents in a friendly at the stadium were the Football League side Birmingham City.
The largest Midlands conurbation, which includes the cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton, is roughly covered by the metropolitan county of the West Midlands (which also includes the city of Coventry); with the related City Region extending into neighbouring areas of Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.