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Sedgley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Manor of Sedgley was originally a set of villages: Sedgley, Cotwall
End, Upper Gornal, Lower Gornal, Gospel End, Gornalwood, Woodsetton,
Ettinghsall, Coseley and Brierley.
In 1897, the
villages of Coseley, Ettingshall and Brierley broke away from the Manor
of Sedgley to form the Urban District Council of Coseley. At the same
time, Sedgley Urban District Council was formed to include the rest of
the manor.
Sedgley Urban
District Council survived until 1966 when it became part of Dudley
County Borough, which at the same time also took in the urban district
councils of Coseley and Brierley Hill. Some parts of Coseley became
part of Wolverhampton County Borough.
Sedgley really
developed from a village into a town after the Second World War when
thousands of residential and commercial properties were developed
across the area. Most of the houses in Sedgley were built in the 1950's
and 1960's.
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