22 Facts About Tipton

Tipton is an industrial town in the West Midlands in England with a population of around 38,777 at the 2011 UK Census.

Tipton was once one of the most heavily industrialised towns in the Black Country, with thousands of people employed in the town's industries.

Tipton was an urban district until 1938, when it became a municipal borough.

Much of the Borough of Tipton was transferred into West Bromwich County Borough in 1966, but parts of the old borough were absorbed into an expanded Dudley borough and the newly created County Borough of Warley.

The town of Tipton was recorded as Tibintone in the Domesday Book of 1086, meaning Tibba's estate.

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Until the 18th century, Tipton was a collection of small hamlets.

Expansion in the iron and coal industries led to the population of Tipton expanding rapidly through the 19th century, going from 4,000 at the beginning of the century to 30,000 at the end.

Tipton gained a reputation as being "the quintessence of the Black Country" because chimneys of local factories belched heavy pollution into the air, whilst houses and factories were built side by side.

Landscape of Tipton began to change further from the late 1920s when new housing estates were built by the town's council, in response to the growing need to replace slum housing.

Tipton Tavern was rebuilt in the 1950s and became the Hallbridge Arms during the 1990s and, more recently, the Pearl Girl, the world's first licensed pearl bar.

The last major private housing development to be built in the Municipal Borough of Tipton was the Foxyards Estate, on land straddling the borders with Dudley and Coseley, in the mid 1960s.

The urban district council of Tipton was formed in 1894, then received County Borough status in 1938.

Bulk of the Tipton borough was absorbed into an expanded West Bromwich borough, although a fragment of the town near the border with Coseley was absorbed into Dudley and most of the Tividale area became part of the new County Borough of Warley.

Since 1974, Tipton has been split between the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, which was created by a merger of the former West Bromwich and Warley boroughs, and the neighbouring Metropolitan Borough of Dudley.

Tipton has two railway stations, the main railway station at Owen Street and another station at Dudley Port.

The South Staffordshire Line through Tipton, which led to Walsall northwards and Dudley southwards, closed in 1993.

Tipton was one of the key towns in the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century.

In 1800, Tipton was a predominantly rural area, with a few coal mines and some 4,000 residents.

Mass building of factories and digging of coal mines then took place, and resulted in Tipton becoming a heavily built-up and industrialised area with more than 30,000 residents by the end of the 19th century.

Tipton has direct bus links with the towns of Dudley, Walsall, Sedgley, West Bromwich, Bilston, Wednesbury.

Tipton has direct, frequent rail services to Wolverhampton and Walsall via Birmingham New Street with some additional services during evening rush hour direct to Telford and Shrewsbury.

Tipton was capped 13 times by the England national football team between May 1989 and October 1990, scoring four goals.