15 Facts About Tividale

Tividale is a district of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands.

Tividale Park has been known as Derygate Park; it can be traced back as far as 1327 when Tividale was known as Derickton Cross.

Tividale was largely developed from the mid 19th century around the main road from Oldbury and Dudley, on the border of Dudley and Tipton.

Coal mining and stone quarrying increased and canals were built across the area, and Tividale became a centre for industries such as iron and brick manufacture, and several terraced streets were built between Tividale Road and Tipton Road, as well as new houses being built along both of these roads.

Birmingham New Road opened in November 1927, dividing the Dudley and Tipton sections of Tividale, and was quickly followed by housing developments along the route and in the areas surrounding it.

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Tividale began to expand rapidly soon after the completion of the Birmingham New Road, namely with the Grace Mary Estate, which was built by Dudley County Borough Council in the mid 1930s.

Several quarries on the edge of the Tividale area were a source of stone known as the 'Rowley Rag'.

In 1966, most of Tividale became part of the Warley, although the section between Tividale Road and Burnt Tree was added to an expanded West Bromwich borough which took in the bulk of Tipton.

Housing estates around Tividale include Tividale Hall, Castle View, Grace Mary and Brades Hall.

Tividale Hall was developed as private housing during the mid-1930s to early 1940s and the final area around Pine Road immediately after the war in the Dudley section of Tividale, but was extended in the 1950s with council housing.

Tividale is home to a Sikh Temple called Gurdwara Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji.

Today, Tividale is the home of the new Hindu Temple which is an exact replica of Tirupati Balaji Temple in Southern India.

Tividale was historically divided between the boroughs of Dudley and Tipton, which meant that it was divided between the counties of Worcestershire and Staffordshire.

The current Tividale ward covers the housing estates south of the A4123, while most of the former Tipton section of Tividale is in the Oldbury ward.

Since 1997 Tividale has been in the parliamentary constituency of West Bromwich West, prior to this it was in Warley West which was abolished for that election.