45 Facts About Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton is a city, metropolitan borough and administrative centre in the West Midlands, England.

Wolverhampton is recorded as being the site of a decisive battle between the unified Mercian Angles and West Saxons against the raiding Danes in 910, although sources are unclear as to whether the battle itself took place in Wednesfield or Tettenhall, although those places were not within Wolverhampton's boundaries at the time.

Wolverhampton is recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 as being in the Hundred of Seisdon and the county of Staffordshire.

Wolverhampton at this date is a large settlement of fifty households.

In Victorian times, Wolverhampton grew to be a wealthy town mainly due to the huge amount of industry that occurred as a result of the abundance of coal and iron deposits in the area.

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Wolverhampton gained its first parliamentary representation as part of the Reform Act 1832, when it was one of 22 large towns that were allocated two members of parliament.

Wolverhampton was incorporated as a municipal borough on 15 March 1848 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 before becoming a county borough in 1889.

Wolverhampton had a prolific bicycle industry from 1868 to 1975, during which time a total of more than 200 bicycle manufacturing companies existed there, but today none exist at all.

Mass council housing development in Wolverhampton, to rehouse families from slum housing, began after the end of the World War I, with new estates at Parkfields and Birches Barn being built, giving the city some 550 new council houses by 1923, although this was a fraction of the number of new council houses required.

Mass council housing development in Wolverhampton continued into the 1930s, mostly in the north of the city in the Oxley and Wobaston areas and on the new Scotlands Estate in the north-east.

Wolverhampton was one of the few towns to operate surface contact trams and the only town to use the Lorain Surface Contact System.

The last Wolverhampton trolleybus ran in 1967, just as the railway line through the High Level station was converted to electric operation.

Wolverhampton is home to a large proportion of the Sikh community, who settled there during the period from the Indian state of Punjab.

In 1974, as a result of local government reorganisation, Wolverhampton became a metropolitan borough, transferring from Staffordshire into the newly formed West Midlands county.

Wolverhampton made an unsuccessful application for a Lord Mayor in 2002.

Centre of Wolverhampton has been altered radically since the mid-1960s, with the Mander Centre being opened in two phases, the first in 1968 and the second in 1971.

Wolverhampton announced that they were considering building a new office development in or around the city centre to house the new headquarters.

Wolverhampton has a strong history in the ornate cast iron safe painting industry from the Victorian era.

Wolverhampton has green belt within its boundary, as a part of the wider West Midlands Green Belt.

City of Wolverhampton is a metropolitan borough, meaning that its City Council is effectively a unitary authority, and therefore is single-tier and provides all services to the district that a borough and county council would together.

Wolverhampton gained the beginnings of modern local government in 1777, when the Wolverhampton Improvement Act was passed by Parliament.

Wolverhampton was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1848 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835.

The vast majority of these areas were traditionally part of the Parish of Wolverhampton, and were part of the original Parliamentary Borough.

Wolverhampton has a relatively old population, with the proportion of the population aged 60 and over being larger than the proportion of children aged 15 or under.

Wolverhampton had a significant Asian population who mainly reside in Penn, Farndale and Whitmore Reans areas of the city.

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Wolverhampton has the fourth largest Sikh community in England and Wales.

Traditionally, Wolverhampton's economy has been dominated by iron, steel, automobiles, engineering and manufacturing industries.

Wolverhampton is near to several motorways, with four being located within 7 miles of the city centre.

Wolverhampton is well connected by rail to other parts of England and Wales.

However, while Priestfield and Bilston are connected by a tram line, the suburbs in the south, west and north of Wolverhampton are no longer served by rail - in particular the Tettenhall, Penn and Compton areas and Dunstall Park for the race course.

Two years after the opening of the High Level station, the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway opened their city centre station immediately to the east of High Level.

Former High Level station, now simply known as Wolverhampton station, is today one of the principal stations on the West Coast Main Line.

Wolverhampton is on the Smethwick to Telford section of Sustrans National Cycle Network Route 81.

In 2010, Wolverhampton-born singer Liam Payne came third in the British television music show The X Factor with his boy band One Direction, who in March 2012 became the first British group to go straight to the top of the US music charts with their debut album, Up All Night.

University of Wolverhampton is the main provider of higher education in the city.

City of Wolverhampton College is the main further education college in the city.

Wolverhampton Girls' High School is a well known selective school which has produced top of league table results within Wolverhampton.

Wolverhampton is represented in the Premier League, the highest tier of English football, by Wolverhampton Wanderers FC.

Wolverhampton Wheelers is the city's oldest cycling club, and was home to Hugh Porter who won four world championship pursuit titles; and Percy Stallard who has been credited with bringing cycle road racing to Britain when he held the Llangollen to Wolverhampton race on 7 June 1942.

Wolverhampton Wheelers make extensive use of the velodrome at Aldersley Stadium.

Wolverhampton was the home of Trevor Gadd, who was a six time British National Cycle champion and two-time silver medallist at the 1978 Commonwealth Games, as well as a fifth-place finisher in the 1977 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Venezuela.

Wolverhampton has hosted the Tour of Britain, with a stage start in 2006, a stage finish in 2007 and a sprint finish in 2008.

Wolverhampton Racecourse is located at Dunstall Park, just to the north of the city centre.

Horse by the name of Wolverhampton was among the leading contenders for the 1849 Grand National at Aintree but did not complete the course.

Wolverhampton Speedway is one of the oldest speedway tracks in the world that is still in operation being first used, albeit briefly in 1928.

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