Brierley Hill
Brierley Hill is a compact town and electoral ward of the Dudley Metropolitan Borough within the West Midlands of England. It is roughly 2.5 miles south of central Dudley and 2 miles north of Stourbridge. Brierley Hill was originally in Staffordshire, but is now a part of the West Midlands metropolitan county since its creation in 1974. A part of the Black Country, and in a heavily industrialised area of the Dudley Borough, it has a permanent resident population of 14,000 people, based on the 2011 census. Largely produced by the Industrial Revolution, Brierley Hill has a reasonably modern history, with the initial written records of the town going back to the 17th century. First created as a settlement within the woodland of Pensnett Chase, it began to expand quickly after the chase's enclosure in 1748, and was first shown on a map in 1785 following the mapping of the Stourbridge Canal. The town is mostly known for glass and steel production, although the industry has declined considerably since the 1970s. One of the biggest factories within the area was the Round Oak Steelworks, which was closed down and renovated in the 1980s to turn into the Merry Hill Shopping Centre. The Merry Hill Shopping Centre is situated immediately to the east of Brierley Hill. One of the biggest shopping centres in the country, it was built between 1985 and 1989 on the site of Merry Hill Farm, the last operating urban farm in the West Midlands. Since 2008, Brierley Hill, including the neighbouring Waterfront Business Park and Merry Hill Shopping Centre, has been officially named the Strategic Town Centre of the Dudley Borough, with the aim to create a new town centre for the borough. For all of your house improvement tasks, be certain that you pick trustworthy pros in Brierley Hill to make sure that you get a great quality service.
