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Encyclopedia Britannica



WEDNESBURY

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 466 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WEDNESBURY , a market town and municipal and parliamentary borough of Staffordshire, England, in the Black Country, 121 M. N.W. from London by the London & North-Western railway, and on the northern line of the
Great
  Western. Pop. (1901) 26,554. An overhead electric tramway connects with Walsall, 31 M. N. The town is ancient, but of modern growth and appearance as an industrial centre. The church of St Bartholomew, however, is a fine Perpendicular building,
standing
  high. It is traditionally supposed to occupy the site of a place of the
worship
  of Woden or Odin, and the name of the town to be derived from this god through the form Wodensborough. A church was built, probably in the 1th century, and from 1301 to 1535 the advowson, tithes, &c., belonged to the abbot of Halesowen. The present church was several times restored in the 18th and 19th centuries. The
chief
  public buildings are the town
hall
  (1872), art gallery (1891), and free library (1878). Coal, limestone and ironstone are
mined
 . A
special
  kind of coal, giving an intense heat, is largely used in forges. There are
great
  iron and steel works, producing every kind of heavy goods used by railway and engineering works, such as boiler plates, rails, axles, tubes, bolts and nuts. Stoneware potteries are also important. Similar industries, with brick-making, are practised at DARLASTON, an urban
district
  (pop. 15,395), within the parliamentary borough. 'ednesbury returns one member to
parliament
 . The town is governed by a mayor, 4 aldermen, and 12 councillors. Area, 2287 acres.
Here Ethelfleda,widow of 'Ethelred of Mercia, in g16 constructed a castle. The place is not mentioned in Domesday, but appears to have belonged to the barony of Dudley. After the Conquest it became a demesne of the crown, and it was bestowed by Henry II. on the Heronvilles. It received parliamentary representation in 1867, and became a municipal borough in 1886.


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