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 A459 in Halesowen Town Centre | ||||
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| Maintained by Metropolitan Borough of Dudley and Wolverhampton City Council | ||||
| Length | 19 mi (31 km) | |||
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| South end | Halesowen | |||
| North end | Wolverhampton | |||
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| Country | United Kingdom | |||
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The A459 is a main road in the West Midlands of England, which runs from Halesowen to Wolverhampton City Centre. Is also a primary route connecting Wolverhampton and Dudley.
The road begins at a roundabout south of Halesowen with the A456 and the B4551. It starts as Grange Road and passes Halesowen Cricket Club as it runs slightly east of the town centre. It then meets the A458 and the road continues to run north of Halesowen College meeting the A4099 in the village Coombeswood. It then passes Haden Hill Parks and runs through Cradley Heath where it meets the A4100 in the town centre.
As the road leaves Cradley Heath Town Centre and begins to head north towards Dudley and Wolverhampton, it runs through the centre of Netherton and meets the B4173. Finally, the road passes the northeast edge of the Saltwells Nature Reserve and runs into Dudley Town Centre.
Entering into Dudley Town Centre, the road becomes concurrent with the A461 at Blowers Green as Duncan Edwards Way: the main dual-carriageway through the town. It then resumes heading north at a junction with the A4037 and meets the B4171 (the original route of the A461) as it passes The Churchill Shopping Centre. Then, the road passes Priory Park and Dudley College, and also meets the A4168. It then begins to head towards Sedgley as The Broadway and meets the B4588 on its way. The road then passes the villages Upper Gornal, Ruiton and Woodsetton before running through Sedgley where it meets the A457 and A463. The road then passes Sedgley Park and enters into Wolverhampton. It runs parallel to the A4123 passing Ettingshall Park and Phoenix Park before signage indicates the road terminates at the junction with Grove Street, part of the A4123 Gyratory route created with the construction of Ring Road St. George's.
Previously the A459 continued to Wolverhampton Ring Road (and is still shown as such on some maps) but road signs in the area indicate this to no longer be the case. Until the 1980s the A459 continued to Five Ways terminating on the A449 and running via Snow Hill, Garrick Street, Princess Street and Stafford Street. Until the late 1960s the A459 ran down Snow Hill and Dudley Street ending in Queen Square.
Under the 1922 classification system, the A459 ended on the A456 (now A458) in Halesowen with the road on the opposite side being the B4096. However the A459 was soon extended over that route to end on the A38 in Marlbrook. At some point the road was rerouted along Grange Road rather than the original narrow road. The opening of the M5 saw the A459 downgraded once again with the section south of Manor Way (the Halesowen bypass) being downgraded to the B4451 and the rest part of the rerouted A38.
The A41 is a trunk road between London and Birkenhead, England. Now in parts replaced by motorways, it passes through or near Watford, Kings Langley, Hemel Hempstead, Aylesbury, Bicester, Solihull, Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton, Newport, Whitchurch, Chester and Ellesmere Port.
Dudley is a market town in the West Midlands, England, 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Wolverhampton and 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Birmingham. Historically part of Worcestershire, the town is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley. In the 2011 census, it had a population of 79,379. The Metropolitan Borough, which includes the towns of Stourbridge and Halesowen, had a population of 312,900. In 2014, the borough council named Dudley as the capital of the Black Country.
Halesowen is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the county of West Midlands, England.
The Metropolitan Borough of Dudley is a metropolitan borough of West Midlands, England. It was created in 1974 following the Local Government Act 1972, through a merger of the existing Dudley County Borough with the municipal boroughs of Stourbridge and Halesowen.
Brierley Hill is a town and electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England, 3 miles south of Dudley and 2 miles north of Stourbridge. Part of the Black Country and in a heavily industrialised area, it has a population of 13,935 at the 2011 census. It is best known for glass and steel manufacturing, although industry has declined considerably since the 1970s. One of the largest factories in the area was the Round Oak Steelworks, which closed down and was redeveloped in the 1980s to become the Merry Hill Shopping Centre. Brierley Hill was originally in Staffordshire.
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Cradley Heath is a town in the Rowley Regis area of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England, 2 miles (3 km) north-west of Halesowen, 3 miles (5 km) south of Dudley and 8 miles (13 km) west of central Birmingham. Cradley Heath is often confused with the neighbouring Halesowen district of Cradley from which it is separated by the River Stour; both are in the Black Country but have long been administered by different local authorities, and until 1966 were in separate counties.
Known as the Hagley Road in Birmingham, the A456 is a main road in England running between Central Birmingham and Woofferton, Shropshire, south of Ludlow. Some sections of the route, for example Edgbaston near Bearwood, are also the route of the Elan Aqueduct which carries Birmingham's water supply from the Elan Valley.
The A4150 Wolverhampton Inner Ring Road is a ring road that encircles the city centre of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, England. The circumference of the road is around 2.1 miles (3.4 km). Technically, the route is listed as an "Inner Ring Road", although only a tiny section of the "Outer Ring Road" was ever constructed with only one of the two designed carriageways built. A second carriageway was built in 2017 along a short stretch between Patshull Avenue and Stafford Road. The section of outer ring road is called Wobaston Road and classified as U119.
The A454 is a major road in central England. It runs 28.9 miles (46.5 km) from Bridgnorth to Sutton Coldfield and is an important primary route linking Wolverhampton and Walsall with the M6 motorway.
Netherton is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, 1.5 miles (2 km) south of Dudley town centre in the West Midlands of England, but historically in Worcestershire. Part of the Black Country, Netherton is bounded by nature reserves to the east and west, and an industrial area and the Dudley Southern By-Pass to the north.
Cradley is a village in the Black Country and Metropolitan Borough of Dudley near Halesowen and the banks of the River Stour. Colley Gate is the name of the short road in the centre of Cradley. It was part of the ancient parish of Halesowen, but unlike much of the rest of that parish, which was an exclave of Shropshire, Cradley was always in Worcestershire, until the creation of the West Midlands county in 1974. This meant that for civil administrative purposes, Cradley formerly had the officers which a parish would have had. The population of the appropriate Dudley Ward taken at the 2011 census was 13,340.
Old Hill is an area of Rowley Regis in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands, England, situated around 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Halesowen and 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Dudley. Initially a separate village it is now part of the much larger West Midlands conurbation.
The A491 is an A road in Zone 4 of the Great Britain numbering scheme.
Haden Hill is a residential area in the West Midlands of England, straddling the border of Halesowen and Cradley Heath townships and the modern boroughs of Dudley and Sandwell.
Hayley Green is a suburb of Halesowen in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England, located to the south-west of Halesowen town centre. Its focal points are the Fox Hunt public house run by the Harvester restaurant chain and a row of small shops on the A456/B4183 roundabout. It has mainly owner-occupied housing stock, including the Causey Farm estate, St Kenelms Avenue and Squirrels estate, with a small 1940s municipal housing estate off Uffmoor Lane.
This article details a number of defunct schools that were once located in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley. For details of currently operating schools in the area, please see: List of schools in Dudley.
