Dunstall Hill is an inner-city area of

Wolverhampton Wolverhampton () is a city, metropolitan borough and administrative centre in the West Midlands, England. The population size has increased by 5.7%, from around 249,500 in 2011 to 263,700 in 2021. People from the city are called "Wulfrunian ...

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. It is located on the north of the city centre within the St Peter's ward.

Dunstall Park

Wolverhampton Racecourse, called ''Dunstall Park'' has been based at Dunstall since 1888, having moved from its previous location at Broad Meadows, the site of the current West Park after Sir

Alexander Staveley Hill Alexander Staveley Hill (21 May 1825 – 25 June 1905) was a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) from 1868 to 1900, representing ...

sold Dunstall Hall and its estate. The first meeting took place on 13 August that year. In 2004, an all-weather polytrack surface was laid at the racecourse.

Railway

Dunstall Park railway station Dunstall Park railway station was a station north of Wolverhampton Low Level railway station on the Great Western Railway's London Paddington to Birkenhead via Birmingham Snow Hill line. The station opened on 1 December 1896. Stafford Road en ...

opened in 1896, serving trains on the

Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

. It closed in 1968 when services between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury switched to Wolverhampton High Level station.

Aviation

In June 1910, just 4 years after the first flight in Europe, Dunstall hosted the first all-British flying meeting at Dunstall Park.https://archive.today/20120804132224/http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/Museum/Transport/planes/Dunstall.htm Aviation Meeting, Dunstall Park

References

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