Holly Hall is a residential area of
Dudley
Dudley is a large market town and administrative centre in the county of West Midlands, England, southeast of Wolverhampton and northwest of Birmingham. Historically an exclave of Worcestershire, the town is the administrative centre of the ...
in the
West Midlands
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth.
Etymology
The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...
of
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
. It is situated around the
A461
List of A roads in Great Britain, A roads in List of A roads zones in Great Britain, zone 4 in Great Britain starting north of the A4 road (Great Britain), A4 and south/west of the A5 road (Great Britain), A5 (roads beginning with 4).
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major road towards
Brierley Hill
Brierley Hill is a town and electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England, 2.5 miles south of Dudley and 2 miles north of Stourbridge. Part of the Black Country and in a heavily industrialised area, it has a pop ...
and
Stourbridge
Stourbridge is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands, England, situated on the River Stour. Historically in Worcestershire, it was the centre of British glass making during the Industrial Revolution. The ...
.
The area is probably best known for being the location of
Holly Hall Academy, a modern secondary school which was built in 1968 to replace an older building further down the road towards Brierley Hill.
Dudley Cemetery was erected on the main Stourbridge Road through Holly Hall in the late 19th century.
Most of Holly Hall was developed after 1920, with a mix of private and council housing.
Duncan Edwards, the footballer who died in February 1958 as a result of injuries sustained in the
Munich air disaster, was born at 23 Malvern Crescent in Holly Hall on 1 October 1936, although he spent most of his life living at Elm Road on the
Priory Estate
The Priory Estate is a housing estate in Dudley, West Midlands, England, which has largely been developed since 1929.
History
The Priory Estate is so named because it is located near the Priory ruins and Priory Park. It stands on the land whi ...
about two miles away.
[''Duncan Edwards: England's Greatest Player..... And Then Came Munich'' (Quantum Leap, 1998)]
References
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Areas of Dudley