Fallings Park Community Fire Station - geograph

Fallings Park Shopping Centre - geograph

Fallings Park is a suburb of

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, and a

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City Council. It is situated in the northeast of the city, bordering

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and the

Wednesfield North Wednesfield North is a ward of Wolverhampton City Council, West Midlands. As the name suggests, it covers the northern parts of the town of Wednesfield. It borders the Wednesfield South, Heath Town and Fallings Park wards, as well as South S ...

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, Bushbury South and Low Hill and Bushbury North wards. It forms part of the

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constituency. Fallings Park ward covers over 5,000 properties in the following areas: Longknowle, Newbolds, Scotlands, Underhill, Willows. The population of the Wolverhampton Ward taken at the 2011 census was 12,410. A 50-house model housing exhibition was erected by Wolverhampton council at Fallings Park in 1908, but the planned housing estate was never completed due to the outbreak of

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in 1914.

Local amenities

In the area there is a

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, many shops, a petrol station, three churches, a number of primary schools (Fallings Park, D'Eyncourt, St Mary's, Long Knowle, Berrybrook and Bushbury Hill), Moreton Secondary School and two pubs, ''The Golden Lion'' and the ''Otter and Vixen''. A third pub, the ''Great Horse'' was situated on Prestwood Road, and attracted celebrities such as former footballers

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and Alan Ball, as well as darts start Phil Taylor and boxer Joe Egan for charity events under former landlady, Sylvia Johnson, before closing in March 2009. Buses services operate between

and the Underhill Estate.

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service 70 operates between Wolverhampton and

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(also serving New Cross Hospital until 20th June 2022) while

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operate service 25 to Wolverhampton via

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Willenhall Willenhall is a market town situated in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, in the West Midlands, England, with a population taken at the 2011 census of 28,480. It is situated between Wolverhampton and Walsall, historically in the county of ...

and

Bilston Bilston is a market town, ward, and civil parish located in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. It is close to the borders of Sandwell and Walsall. The nearest towns are Darlaston, Wednesbury, and Willenhall. Historically in Staffordshi ...

in one direction and to Pendeford in the other. On Sundays the service operates between Bilston and Pendeford only.

History

The bulk of the area of Fallings Park around Wimborne Road was built in the 1930s with many of the houses retaining the

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Air-raid shelters.

References

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