Wolverhampton: Area, History and Background
Riding are well acquainted with the United Kingdom, its cities and towns.
Below is some historic, cultural and background information about the area of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom.
- Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough of the West Midlands, England.
- In 2004, the local government district had an estimated population of 239,100.
- Wolverhampton's the wider Urban Area had a population of 251,462.
- It is the 13th most populous city in England.
- The city's name is often abbreviated to Wolvo "W'ton" or "Wolves".
- The city council's motto is "Out of darkness, cometh light".
- Wolverhampton is recorded as being the site of a decisive battle between the Saxons and Danes in 910.
- It is home to a large proportion of the Sikh community, who settled there during the period (1940–1970) from the Indian state of Punjab.
- Wolverhampton's High Level station (the current main railway station) opened in 1852.
- Its Low Level station opened on the Great Western Railway in 1855.
- Wolverhampton was represented politically in Victorian times by the Liberal MP Charles Pelham Villiers.
- Its Art Gallery was established in 1884.
- Wolverhampton's Grand Theatre was opened in 1894.
- It lies northwest of its larger near-neighbour Birmingham.
- Wolverhampton forms the second largest part of the West Midlands conurbation.
- To the north and west lies the Staffordshire and Shropshire countryside.
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