Map sources for Darlaston at grid reference SO9797

Darlaston is a town in Walsall in the West Midlands of England. Image File history File links Dot4gb. ... Image File history File links Gb4dot. ... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town A town is a residential community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas. ... Walsall is a metropolitan borough of the county of West Midlands, England. ... The County of West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England, the United Kingdom, formed in 1974. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ...

The town grew in the nineteenth century around the nut, bolt and gun lock manufacturing and coal mining industries. But most of the town's industries had closed by the end of the 1980s and the town is now considered a ghost town, with an increasing high level of unemployment. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... A nut is a type of hardware fastener with a threaded hole. ... A bolt may be one of the following things: For bolts and capscrews, see Bolted joint. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Many Victorian terraced houses were demolished during the second half of the 20th century, and the Urban District Council of Darlaston built thousands of houses and flats to replace them with. Since 1966, Darlaston has been part of the Walsall borough and is now in the WS10 postal district which also included neighbouring Wednesbury. Manchester Town Hall is an example of Victorian architecture found in Manchester, UK. The Carson Mansion is an example of a Victorian home in Eureka, California, USA The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly in the Victorian era. ... A street of British Victorian/Edwardian terraced homes. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... For the legal principle of similar name, see Wednesbury unreasonableness. ...

Bentley Old Hall stood in the north of Darlaston until the early 20th century. Its grounds were redeveloped as a housing estate in the 1950s.

Mining subsidence, which has taken its toll on many buildings across central England, has also made its mark in Darlaston. In 1999, a council house on the New Moxley housing estate collapsed down a disused mineshaft while its occupants were on holiday. The adjoining house also had to be knocked down. Since then, the council owned housing stock in Darlaston has broken away from Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council and is now controlled by Darlaston Housing Trust. In 2001, two of the town's four multi-storey blocks of flats were demolished, and the remaining two followed suit in 2004. Some of the town's council owned low rise homes have already been flattened by bulldozers, mostly because of subsidence, while many more are expected to be cleared. Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ...

The athlete Mark Lewis-Francis was born at Darlaston in 1981. Mark Lewis-Francis (born September 4, 1982) is an English sprint athlete, regarded as the top 100m sprinter in the United Kingdom. ...

The town was also the home of footballer Billy Annis (1878-1944) who played 143 games in defence for Wolverhampton Wanderers between 1898 and 1905. Billy Annis (1878 - 1938) was an English footballer for Wolverhampton Wanderers. ... Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. is a Wolverhampton-based football club playing at Molineux. ...

Mark Rhodes, runner-up in ITV's Pop Idol 2003 contest, is also from Darlaston. Mark Rhodes has quickly became popular with the younger audience after becoming a Pop Idol Runner-up and fitted nicely into the role of tv presenter for top of the pops reloaded. ... ITV (Independent Television) is the name popularly given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. In England, Wales and southern Scotland, the network has been rebranded to ITV1 by ITV plc, the owners of... This article is about the British television series. ...

Both Lewis-Francis and Rhodes were pupils at Darlaston Comprehensive School. The Town's Football club has won The Chickhen Tikka Cup in 1995 and 1997.

Neighbourhoods

• Rough Hay: a predominantly interwar council housing area in the north of the town close to the border with Willenhall.

• Moxley: an established private and council residential area in the west of the town close to the border with Bilston.

• Kings Hill: a mixed residential area near the town centre which includes many types of housing as well as several factories and business units.

• Woods Bank: a predominantly interwar council housing area in the south of the town close to the border with Wednesbury.

• Bentley: the most northernly area in Darlaston which was mostly developed after 1945 but is now included in the Walsall postal district.