Palfrey, West Midlands

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Palfrey is a neighbourhood in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, in the West Midlands.

The word Palfrey, refers to a small simple horse, once used particularly for women. The neighbourhood name of Palfrey was probably created due to a large field kept for the horse.

It stands in the south of the town centre, near the ring road.

The Victorian neighbourhood was nearly all replaced by modern housing in the 1970s, but due to funding problems, only a couple of streets were demolished, and replaced with modern housing and a park.

It is home to Walsall's main mosques Abu Bakr, Al Farooq and Aisha Mosques. It has a predominantly Muslim population.