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Wolverhampton (/ ˌ w ʊ l v ər ˈ h æ m p t ə n / ⓘ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. Located 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Birmingham, the population in 2021 was 263,700. Historically in Staffordshire, the city grew as a market town specialising in the wool trade.
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Wolverhampton, metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of West Midlands, historic county of Staffordshire, west-central England. It lies in the northwestern part of the industrial Black Country, near the farmlands of Shropshire and Staffordshire.
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- Wightwick Manor
- Bantock House Museum and Park
- Raf Museum Cosford
- David Austin Roses
- Moseley Old Hall
- West Park
- Wolverhampton Art Gallery
- Wolverhampton Wanderers
- Baggeridge Country Park
- Northycote Farm
A glorious snapshot of the late-19th-century Arts and Crafts and Aesthetic movements, Wightwick Manor is a must-see National Trust house. In the half-timbered Vernacular style, Wightwick Manor was ordered by Theodore Mander, a rich Wolverhampton industrialist and built in two phases between 1887 and 1893. The foremost artists and designers of the A...
In 50 acres of grounds, this country house dates from the 1730s, but was given its last major update at the start of the 20th century. At that time it was owned by the Bantocks, an eminent family of entrepreneurs. Their last heir was Thomas Bantock, a two-time mayor of Wolverhampton who donated the estate to the town when he passed away in 1938. Th...
Anyone fascinated by aviation, both military and civilian, will be in heaven at this museum at the Royal Air Force base in Cosford. In four sizeable hangars (Hangar One, Test Flight, War in the Air and Cold War), the exhibitions deal with the entire history of aviation. At Test Flight you’ll see experimental planes and prototypes that you won’t fin...
The internationally-acclaimed rose breeder David Austin has bred a catalogue of rose cultivars, which like modern roses flower repeatedly, but also have the scent and aesthetics of old garden roses like damasks and gallicas. David Austin roses is a combined plant centre and rose garden that Austin founded in the 1950s. That garden is the ultimate s...
This marvellous Elizabethan house is one of two properties on our list that served as a refuge for Charles II following the Royalists’ defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The heir to the throne had to bide his time before escaping to France, hiding in trees and disguising himself as a farm labourer and servant. Charles arrived at the back do...
An archetypal Victorian urban park, West Park was inaugurated in 1881 and still has some beautiful architecture from the period. The bandstand followed soon after, in 1882, and is now Grade II-listed, while the lakeside conservatory followed in 1896. This opens to the public from Thursday to Sunday. Both buildings set a delightful scene in the summ...
In a Neoclassical purpose-built venue, constructed from Bath stone in 1884, Wolverhampton Art Gallery has a collection that punches above its weight. Many of its works were donated by industrialist art patrons. The most valuable work is Peace and Plenty Binding the Arrows of War (1614), by the Flemish master Abraham Janssens. As the galleries main ...
When this post was written in summer 2018 Wolverhampton Wanderers (Wolves) were riding the crest of a wave. The club had just won a promotion to the Premier League after a dominant season helmed by Portuguese coach Nuno Espirito Santo and powered by bright young midfielder Rúben Neves, also Portuguese. For the last 15 years the club has flitted bet...
Four miles south of the centre of Wolverhampton is 150-acres of woods, meadows, marsh and water on hilly ground at the gateway to the Black Country. The southernmost tracts of Baggeridge Country Park overlap with the neighbouring Himley Park and were plotted by Capability Brown. When the weather’s good Baggeridge Country Park is somewhere for famil...
A local family favourite, Northycote Farm is a free animal attraction around a 16th-century Tudor house. In the paddocks and aviaries are pigs, Shropshire sheep, Norfolk black turkeys, guinea fowl, ducks, chickens and geese. The farm puts on a lively calendar of events and celebrations, from the Harvest Festival in autumn, to spooky goings-on at Ha...
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Nov 16, 2023 · Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. Historically part of Staffordshire, the city is named after Wulfrun, who founded the town in 985, from the Anglo-Saxon Wulfrūnehēantūn ("Wulfrūn's high or principal enclosure or farm").
An administrative county of Staffordshire was set up in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888 covering the county, except for the county boroughs of Wolverhampton, Walsall, and West Bromwich in the south (the area known as the Black Country), and Hanley in the north.
Wolverhampton is in the West Midlands county of England. Whilst Wolverhampton isn't well known as a tourist attraction, those visiting friends at the University of Wolverhampton, enjoying a football match at the famous Molineux Stadium or attending a concert at one of the fine local music venues will probably be pleasantly surprised by what ...
Apr 7, 2024 · Discover the best things to do in Wolverhampton, from art galleries to bottomless brunch and canal walks.
