Dudley

Dudley is a large town in the county of West Midlands, England, 6 miles south-east of Wolverhampton and 10.5 miles north-west of Birmingham. The town is the authoritative focus of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley and in 2011 had a populace of 79,379. The Metropolitan Borough, which incorporates the towns of Stourbridge and Halesowen, had a populace of 312,900. Dudley is once in a while called the capital of the Black Country.

Initially a market town, Dudley was one of the origination of the Industrial Revolution and developed into a mechanical focus in the nineteenth century with its iron, coal, and limestone ventures before their decrease and the movement of its business focus to the adjacent Merry Hill Shopping Center in the 1980s. Vacation destinations incorporate Dudley Zoo and Castle, the twelfth century convent ruins, and the Black Country Living Museum.

Made reference to in the Domesday Book as Dudelei, in the hundred of Clent in Worcestershire,the town was recorded just like a medium-sized house in the ownership of Earl Edwin of Mercia preceding the Norman Conquest, with William Fitz-Ansculf as Lord of the Manor in 1086. Dudley Castle, developed in 1070 by William's dad Ansculf de Picquigny after his procurement of the town, filled in as the seat of the broad Barony of Dudley, which had domains in eleven unique provinces crosswise over England.