Ashmore Park

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Ashmore Park is a fairly small housing estate just outside of Wednesfield, a town which was formerly in Staffordshire in England, and is now in the city of Wolverhampton, West Midlands. It forms most of the Wednesfield North ward of Wolverhampton City Council.

There are two main shopping areas, known locally as the 'top shops' and the 'bottom shops'. Musicland is situated on the 'bottom shops' next to a Stars newsagents. There is also a Youth Club on Griffiths Drive, the youth club is frequently broken into by youths on the estate which has resulted in it closing during the week and the equipment being stolen.

It was originally built as overspill for Wolverhampton, but was built within Wednesfield Urban District. Most of the estate is 1950s council houses, flats and bungalows. It was the biggest council estate in England at the time of being built.

To get there on the Bus from Wolverhampton catch the 559.

The estate has had and continues to undergo extensive renovation to the shopping precinct ( the "bottom shops") which is arguably the heart of the estate.

Ashmore Park was originally one of the wooded estates which Lady Wulfruna gave over to St. Peter's Fold in order for it to generate income and food for itself. A moat surrounded farmhouse was built here, sometime in the in the mid-thirteen hundreds. Three-quarters of the moat still exists today, at the ‘bottom shops’.

The home stead is viewed as being used by the Dean of Wolverhampton in his role as Dean of Ashmore Park (basically landlord). Generally the house was probably used as a farm and hostel for visitors and/or workers utilized on the land and in the woods. Such things were common medieval uses for outlying city/town estates. However, there is little to no actual evidence of such use here. The old farmhouse was probably taken down when a new one was built in the early 19th century; that new one was demolished in 1957 and a library was built near its site.

The estate is served by two Bankes's Pubs: The Ashmore and The True Britain.