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Dudley Castle is a ruined fortification in the town of Dudley, West Midlands, England. Originally, a wooden motte and bailey castle built soon after the Norman Conquest , it was rebuilt as a stone fortification during the twelfth century but subsequently demolished on the orders of Henry II of England .
Dudley Town Hall (an events venue) opened on St James's Road in 1928; it stands next to council offices which were converted from the old Police Station in 1939, after the construction of a new building on nearby New Street. [42] Dudley is the administrative centre of the Dudley Metropolitan Borough, governed by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council.
Dudley Public school opened in 1892 and has among its alumni two recipients of the Victoria Cross.In 1976, the Jeffries and Currey Memorial Library was opened by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Roden Cutler, himself a VC, at Dudley Public School to honour the two ex-pupils who were decorated with the Victoria Cross during the First World War: Clarence Jeffries and William Currey.
Dudley was first settled in 1714 and was officially incorporated in 1732. The town was named for landholders Paul and William Dudley. [2]In April 1776, on his way to New York City from Boston after his victory in the Siege of Boston, General George Washington camped in the town of Dudley with the Continental Army along what is now a portion of Route 31 near the Connecticut border.
Dudley Zoo & Castle (previously Dudley Zoological Gardens) is a 40-acre (16 ha) zoo within a 200-acre densely-wooded site located within the grounds of Dudley Castle in the town of Dudley, in the Black Country region of the West Midlands, England. The zoo opened to the public on 18 May 1937. [2]
This is a list of public art in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands, England. This list applies only to works of public art accessible in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artwork visible inside a museum.
The Wren's Nest National Nature Reserve is world-famous geologically for its well-preserved Silurian coral reef fossils.Considered the most diverse and abundant fossil site in the British Isles, [9] more than 700 types of fossil have been found at the site, 86 of which are unique to the location, [10] including Calymene blumenbachii, a trilobite nicknamed the Dudley Bug or Dudley Locust by ...
Tourism and the visitor economy is an important sector to the borough, supporting approximately 8,000 jobs. [20] Many of the borough's tourist attractions draw on the industrial heritage of the area. For example, the Red House Glass Cone is an original structure from the 18th Century glass making industry in Stourbridge. [21]