St Peter's is a

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City Council, West Midlands. It has two parts: the city centre (i.e. the area inside the city's

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), and the inner-city areas immediately to the north and north-west, including Dunstall Hill and part of

Whitmore Reans Whitmore Reans is in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. It is situated to the north-west of the city centre, in the city council's Park and St Peter's wards. History The name 'Whitmore' is said by toponymists to come from the Old Engli ...

. It is bordered by the wards of Bushbury South and Low Hill,

Heath Town Heath Town is a suburban area of Wolverhampton, in the county of the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England, to the east of the city centre. It is also a Ward (politics), ward of City of Wolverhampton Council. The ward forms part of t ...

, East Park, Ettingshall, Blakenhall, Graiseley,

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, Tettenhall Regis and Oxley. It forms part of the Wolverhampton West constituency. The city centre includes the main shopping centres: the Mander Centre (named after the Mander family whose paint factory once stood on the site) and Wulfrun Centre), the Civic Centre (the headquarters of the city council), the main campus of the

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and the terminus of the

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. St Peter's Church is in that part of the ward: it is the principal

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church in the city, and gives the ward its name. The rest of the ward includes the

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(home of

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), further parts of the

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, and Dunstall Park (the city's

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course).

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