The local Co-op at Milking Bank (geograph 2149851)

Milking Bank is a residential area of

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. It is a modern development which began in about 1984 with the construction of new houses in an isolated area more than a mile to the west of Dudley town centre, near the border with

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, which had been mined for coal since the 19th century. Further developments of private housing took place on this land between Himley Road and Dibdale Road and by the end of the 1980s there were several hundred houses in Milking Bank, as well as a

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. Further development took place after the demolition of nearby

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in 1994, with the construction of further housing on the north side of Dibdale Road. At the end of the decade, further houses - as well as a

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supermarket - were built on the west of Milking Bank joining onto Grosvenor Road. This latest development was a mix of private homes as well as ones leased out by a

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. The estate is served by a public house, the Meadow Lark, as well as a

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. A

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minimarket opened in the mid 1980s, around the time that the first houses were built. This later became a Bargain Booze store, but it was burnt down in a suspected arson attack in 2011. This was then rebuilt and for a short time opened as a Costcutter, but by January 2015 had closed. As of June 2018 this shop is now occupied by a "local" shop franchise.

External links

*http://www.west-midlands.police.uk/dudleynorth/n6.asp

References

{{coord, 52.516, -2.117, type:city_region:GB-DUD, display=title Areas of Dudley