Parish Noticeboard Retailers In Brownhills, Shropshire

Brownhills is a town and former administrative middle in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England. A few miles south of Cannock Chase and close to the large Chasewater reservoir, it is 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Walsall, a same distance southwest of Lichfield and 13 miles (20.9 km) miles north-northwest of Birmingham. It is allowance of the Aldridge-Brownhills parliamentary constituency and neighbours the large suburban villages of Pelsall and Walsall Wood. It lies within the boundaries of the historic county of Staffordshire.

The town lies near to the route of the ancient Watling Street, and although there is no stamp album of its existence in the past the 17th century, Ogley Hay – a district of the town today – is recorded as a settlement in the Domesday Book. Brownhills speedily grew roughly speaking the coal-mining industry, especially after the town became connected to the canal and railway networks in the mid-19th century. By the decline of the century, Brownhills had grown from a hamlet of only 300 inhabitants to a town of more than 13,000, of whom the gigantic majority were employed in the coal industry. Mining remained the town’s principal industry until the 1950s; the subsequent break of the pits led to a rude economic end that has continued until the present. The local authority instituted a regeneration programme in 2007, which was hoped would revive the town’s fortunes, but there has been Tiny subsequent development.