Woods Bank

Woods Bank
Suburb
Lodge Road in Woods Bank, Darlaston
Woods Bank is located in West Midlands county
Woods Bank
Woods Bank
Location within the West Midlands
OS grid referenceSO973960
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWEDNESBURY
Postcode districtWS10
Dialling code0121
PoliceWest Midlands
FireWest Midlands
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
West Midlands
52°33′45″N 2°02′34″W / 52.562599°N 2.042681°W / 52.562599; -2.042681

Woods Bank[1] is an area of Darlaston in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands county in England.[2] It is located to the southwest of Darlaston town centre and close to the Black Country New Road as well as the nearby village of Moxley.[3] It is primarily a residential estate and is close to the town of Bilston, bordering the boroughs of Sandwell and Wolverhampton.[4]

The number of houses in the Wood Green area increased by up to 87% between 1841 and 1871, and a sanitary report of 1875 describes a dwelling there as of one lower and one upper room, with no ventilation or back door. The area was described as "a distinct location of poor ironworkers".[5]

  1. ^ Food & Sanitation. M. Henry. 1895.
  2. ^ Saddlery and Harness. 1896.
  3. ^ Guttridge, Richard (26 January 2023). "The schools that have been told to improve according to Ofsted". Birmingham Live. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
  4. ^ Ede, John F. (1962). History of Wednesbury. Wednesbury Corporation.
  5. ^ Jones, Rachael (2 January 2021). "Darlaston: Growth of A Staffordshire Industrial Town During the Nineteenth Century". Family & Community History. 24 (1): 43–65. doi:10.1080/14631180.2021.1925426. ISSN 1463-1180.