Amblecote

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Amblecote
Amblecote (West Midlands)
Amblecote

Amblecote shown within the West Midlands
OS grid reference SO8985
Metropolitan county West Midlands
Region West Midlands
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Police West Midlands
Fire West Midlands
Ambulance West Midlands
European Parliament West Midlands
List of places: UKEnglandWest Midlands

Coordinates: 52°28′N 2°10′W / 52.46, -2.16

Amblecote is a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands, England, just north of Stourbridge town centre, and on the western fringe of the West Midlands urban area. Located within the Amblecote suburb is the War Memorial Athletic Ground, home of Stourbridge Football Club (the Glassboys) & Stourbridge Cricket Club.

[edit] History

Amblecote was a village Staffordshire near the River Stour which formed the border with the county of Worcestershire. It was originally part of the parish of Oldswinford, which was otherwise in Worcestershire. It was a separate division for rating purposes from those Stourbridge and Oldswinford (the two Worcestershire divisions of the parish]]. Since rates were separately collected for it, it became a civil parish in 1894. In 1894, under the Local Government Act 1894, the parish of Amblecote became part of Kingswinford Rural District, but became an urban district by itself in 1898.[1]

From the seventeenth century, there have been glassworks in Amblecote, being the main centre of the Stourbrisdge glass industry. Glass is still produced to this day.

The parish church of Holy Trinity was begun in 1841, and consecrated in 1844, being made a separate ecclesiastical parish (a perpetual curacy) in 1845 and then a vicarage in 1868.[2]

There has also been a hospital in the area, Corbett Hospital, for more than 100 years, although the National Health Service announced a plan several years ago to demolish the older parts of the hospital and maintain the modern buildings as a maternity centre.

In 1966, most of it was absorbed into the municipal borough of Stourbridge in Worcestershire. In 1974, Amblecote and the rest of the Stourbridge borough became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the metropolitan county of the West Midlands.

Along with Stourbridge, the Amblecote area became part of the DY8 postal district.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Victoria County History, Staffordshire, XX, 49 61-2.
  2. ^ Victoria County History, Staffordshire XX, 62--3.