Bushbury South and Low Hill

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Bushbury South and Low Hill is a ward of Wolverhampton City Council, West Midlands, England. It is situated to the north of the city centre, bordering the Bushbury North, Fallings Park, Heath Town, St Peter's and Oxley wards, and forms part of the Wolverhampton North East constituency.

Low Hill is well known for car crime where majority of Wolverhampton 'Joy Riders' originate from with its long and straight roads "Third Avenue", "First Avenue" and "Kempthorne Avenue" being ideal drag strips, and was also the first place in UK where the Joy Riders used the Polices "Stinger" idea against them by driving stolen cars being chased by police past there friends who deployed a home made Stinger

It contains the southern part of Bushbury as well as Low Hill and part of the inner city area of Park Village. Our Lady and St Chad RC Secondary school lies in the ward, as does the Goodyear tyre factory, which has scaled down its operations considerably in recent years.