Aldridge

Also known as Alrewic

thumb|Gold postbox on the High Street, celebrating Ellie Simmonds' medal winning at the [[2012 Summer Paralympics ]]

Key facts

UK place.country: England
UK place.map_type: West Midlands
UK place.static_image_caption: Clockwise from top: Aldridge St Mary's Church, War Memorial, rural area with pylons and farmland, Anchor Drive with skyline towards Walsall and town centre
UK place.population: 26,896
UK place.population_ref: (2021 Census Ward Profiles Combined)
UK place.official_name: Aldridge
UK place.parts_type: Areas of the town
UK place.p1: Druids Heath
UK place.p2: Mill Green
UK place.p3: Pool Green
UK place.p4: Rushall (part)
UK place.p5: Shelfield (part)
UK place.p6: Streetly (part)
UK place.p7: Stubbers Green
UK place.p8: Walsall Wood (part)
UK place.metropolitan_borough: Walsall
UK place.region: West Midlands
UK place.metropolitan_county: West Midlands

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thumb|Gold postbox on the High Street, celebrating Ellie Simmonds' medal winning at the [[2012 Summer Paralympics ]]

Aldridge is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands, England. It was historically a village, which was part of Staffordshire until 1974. The town is from Brownhills, from Walsall, from Sutton Coldfield and from Lichfield. The town is also the second-largest town in the Walsall Borough (by population, after Walsall).

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