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Himley Hall is an early 17th-century country house situated in Staffordshire, England. It is situated in the south of the county in the small village of Himley, near to the town of Dudley and the city of Wolverhampton. Himley Hall is a Grade II* listed building. [1]
Himley is situated off the intersection of the main A449 road between Wolverhampton and Kidderminster, and the B4176 road between Dudley and Telford, which includes the village's bypass opened in July 1988. Bus routes National Express West Midlands 15/15a from Wolverhampton to Merry Hill Shopping Centre serve Himley village.
This boundary is known as the Western Boundary Fault of the South Staffordshire Coalfield. In an edition of the Engineer from 1869, [1] a description of a visit by the Dudley and Midland Geological Society to the Earl of Dudley's No. 3 pit at the Himley Colliery is given. The visit took place 'to examine the peculiar formations of strata ...
The ice house is in the grounds of Himley Hall to the north of the hall. It is in sandstone, with a circular plan, and is covered in earth. There is a short vaulted access passage leading to a doorway and to a circular ice chamber. This is cut unto bedrock and has a shallow domed roof containing an ice chute.
Baggeridge was originally owned by the Earls of Dudley as part of the Himley Estate and consisted of small farms and ancient woodland along with the parkland of Himley Park. It was later landscaped by Lancelot "Capability" Brown in the 18th century; the landscape is still largely unchanged from the southern boundary up to the Wishing Pools. The ...
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[10] [11] Around this time, coal mines were established in the Black Country, and the Earl of Dudley owned the substantial Himley colliery in the area surrounding the pub. [12] [6] In the 1850s the building began gradually sinking until one end of the building was 4 feet (1.2 m) lower than the other, [5] [13] leaning at an angle of 15 degrees. [14]
This is a list of areas in the borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England. A Amblecote; B. Baptist End; Brierley Hill ... Russells Hall; S. Sedgley; Stourbridge; T ...