Metropolitan Borough of Walsall
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| Borough of Walsall | |
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| Geography | |
| Status: | Metropolitan borough |
| Region: | West Midlands |
| Ceremonial County: | West Midlands |
| Area: - Total | Ranked 240th 103.95 km² |
| Admin. HQ: | Walsall |
| ONS code: | 00CU |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2003 est.) - Density | Ranked 33rd 252,411 2,428 / km² |
| Ethnicity: | 86.4% White 10.4% S.Asian 1.4% Afro-Carib. |
| Politics | |
| Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council http://www.walsall.gov.uk/ | |
| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | Conservative |
| MPs: | Bruce George, Richard Shepherd, David Winnick |
The Metropolitan borough of Walsall is a metropolitan borough of the county of West Midlands, England. It is named after Walsall, its administrative headquarters.
Other major towns on the borough include Aldridge, Bloxwich, Darlaston, Streetly and Willenhall.
The current boundaries of the borough were set in April 1, 1974, when the Local Government Act 1972 came into force. The former county borough of Walsall took in Aldridge-Brownhills urban district from Staffordshire and became a metropolitan district of the West Midlands.
Localities
- Aldridge
- Barr Beacon, Bentley, Blakenhall Heath, Bloxwich, Brownhills, Brownhills West
- Caldmore, Clayhanger, Coalpool
- Darlaston
- Fullbrook
- Harden, High Heath
- Leamore, Little Bloxwich
- Moxley
- New Invention
- Palfrey, Pelsall, Pleck, Pleasey
- Rushall
- Shelfield, Shire Oak, Short Heath, Spring Bank, Streetly
- Walsall Wood, Willenhall
| Districts of England - West Midlands | 
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Birmingham | Bridgnorth | Bromsgrove | Cannock Chase | Coventry | Dudley | East Staffordshire | Herefordshire | Lichfield | Malvern Hills | Newcastle-under-Lyme | North Shropshire | North Warwickshire | Nuneaton and Bedworth | Oswestry | Redditch | Rugby | Sandwell | Shrewsbury and Atcham | Solihull | South Shropshire | South Staffordshire | Stafford | Staffordshire Moorlands | Stoke-on-Trent | Stratford-on-Avon | Tamworth | Telford and Wrekin | Walsall | Warwick | Wolverhampton | Worcester | Wychavon | Wyre Forest | |
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Administrative Counties with multiple districts: Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire |