Wednesfield
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Wednesfield () is a town and historic village in the City of Wolverhampton, in the county of the West Midlands, England; it was historically within the county of Staffordshire. It is east-north-east of Wolverhampton city centre and about from Birmingham. Local areas include Ashmore Park and Wood End. There is a formal garden at Wednesfield Park.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Wednesfield
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.map_type
- West Midlands
- UK place.region
- West Midlands
- UK place.population
- 22,646
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census Wards)
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SO944998
- UK place.post_town
- WOLVERHAMPTON
- UK place.postcode_area
- WV
- UK place.postcode_district
- WV11
- UK place.dial_code
- 01902
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Wolverhampton North East
- UK place.metropolitan_borough
- Wolverhampton
- UK place.metropolitan_county
- West Midlands
- UK place.static_image_name
- Wednesfield_Tower_Blocks_(geograph_5635021).jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- High-rises in Wednesfield, seen from Graiseley Lane.
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 22646
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Shares border with
- Stafford
- Image
- Wednesfield Library and Church - geograph.org.uk - 232331.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01902
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- Commons category
- Wednesfield
- OS grid reference
- SO944998
- postal code
- WV11
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Toponymy
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Wednesfield () is a town and historic village in the City of Wolverhampton, in the county of the West Midlands, England; it was historically within the county of Staffordshire. It is east-north-east of Wolverhampton city centre and about from Birmingham. Local areas include Ashmore Park and Wood End. There is a formal garden at Wednesfield Park.
==Toponymy== Its name comes from the Old English Wōdnesfeld, meaning "Woden's field", open land belonging to, or holy to, the high god of the Germanic Pantheon.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wednesfield” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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