Springhill, South Staffordshire

Wednesbury Town F.C. was a football club based in Wednesbury, West Midlands, England. For the 2008–09 season, they were members of the West Midlands (Regional) League Division One, but resigned during the season. They were formed in 2002 and were admitted into the West Midlands (Regional) League Division One North.The team played at Long Lane Park, Long Lane, Essington, Wolverhampton where they shared a pitch with Riverway.

Black Country UTC was a university technical college (UTC) located in the Bloxwich area of Walsall, West Midlands, England. The University of Wolverhampton and Walsall College were the lead academic sponsors of the UTC, and Siemens acted as the lead business partner for the UTC. The UTC closed at the end of August 2015.

Sneyd Comprehensive School was a secondary school located in Bloxwich, West Midlands, England. The building of the school started in 1978, to serve the western part of the town and the northern part of Willenhall, with students moving into the School at the start of the new academic year in September 1979. The school was situated on Vernon Way in the shadow of the M6 motorway, and is just over the border from Willenhall. Sneyd Reservoir is adjacent to the former school site. The Sneyd School Choir performed at the Royal Albert Hall, at an event called 'The Magic of Music', organised by the Opal Foundation. They were one of two school choirs to win that night, and have won the opportunity to represent Great Britain at the 2008 Choir Olympics in Graz, Austria The school entered special measures in 2005, but managed to get out of these by 2006. In 2009, it was the joint lowest ranking secondary school in the Walsall borough with 27% of students achieving five or more GCSEs at grade C or above.

Bloxwich North railway station serves the town of Bloxwich, in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by West Midlands Trains.

Essington is a village and civil parish in South Staffordshire, England, located near the city of Wolverhampton and towns of Walsall, Bloxwich, Cannock and Brewood. The villages of Cheslyn Hay, Great Wyrley, Coven, Penkridge and Featherstone are also nearby. The village forms part of the Staffordshire/West Midlands border.

Hilton Park services is a motorway service station, between junctions 10a and 11 of the M6 motorway in Staffordshire, England. The nearest city is Wolverhampton.

Turnberry Estate is a residential area of Bloxwich in the West Midlands of England. It was developed during the 1980s for the construction of new privately owned homes, and has borders with the countryside which heads away from Bloxwich in the direction of Cannock. The North Walsall cemetery is also situated in the northernmost part of the estate. The estate is served by the X51 National Express West Midlands bus route and Bloxwich North railway station which is located on the south western edge of the estate. The estate was preceded by a much older manor house, which was at times host to a travelling judge or law man appointed by the capital to give judgment on locals every time he returned. This was believed to have been destroyed by fire after running into ruin in the 1970s. The estate now includes a local Marston's Brewery pub, A Co-Op Food store, an Indian restaurant, a Chinese takeaway, a Beauty Salon, Hair Salon, and a fish bar.

Cheslyn Hay is a former mining village and civil parish which is contiguous with Great Wyrley and Landywood in Staffordshire, England. It is situated within the South Staffordshire district some 3 miles south of Cannock, 7 miles north of Walsall, 8.5 miles northeast of Wolverhampton (the closest city) and 12.5 miles south of the county town of Stafford. The West Midlands county border lies 2 miles to the south. Station Street is the main street with some small shops. A major employer in the village is B.S. Eaton Ltd, a manufacturer of concrete products who operate a fleet of distinctive orange trucks. Another large employer is PP Control & Automation Ltd, a manufacturer of automation machinery. Landywood railway station, which opened in 1989, is the nearest station. Previously the village was served by Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay railway station which closed in 1965. Until 1 January 1916, the LNWR also operated a halt at nearby Landywood. Before World War II there was a cinema at the top of Rosemary Road, on the site much later occupied by Barts Motors. The housing stock has been grown significantly in each post-war decade, with suburban expansion into surrounding fields. The old Primary School was situated on the site bounded by Hatherton Street, Pinfold Lane, Hill Street and High Street. It was constructed circa 1883 and demolished in the 1990s and the land used for new housing. An additional modern building on the opposite side of Pinfold Lane was used for school meals and gym. The village is now served by two primary schools (Glenthorne Primary School and Cheslyn Hay Primary School) and by one secondary school, Cheslyn Hay Academy. The Hawkins family were a prominent family in the area in the 19th century. During the 19th century the area was known colloquially as the Wyrley Bank (in the local dialect Wyrley Bonk).

Newtown is a small village in South Staffordshire, England. For population details as taken in the 2011 census see Essington. Newtown lies in between Great Wyrley (to the north) and Bloxwich (to the south), or more precisely, Landywood (to the north) and Bloxwich (to the south), forming part of the Staffordshire/West Midlands border. It lies on Walsall Road, the main route between Walsall and Cannock, which forms part of the A34.

Cheslyn Hay Academy (formerly Cheslyn Hay Sport and Community High School) is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Cheslyn Hay in the English county of Staffordshire.Previously a community school administered by Staffordshire County Council, in December 2018 Cheslyn Hay Sport and Community High School converted to academy status and was renamed Cheslyn Hay Academy. The school is now sponsored by The Windsor Academy Trust. The catchment area of the school includes Cheslyn Hay, Essington and Featherstone, However the school also attracts pupils who live further afield, including some from the West Midlands. Cheslyn Hay Academy offers GCSEs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels.

Landywood is a small village in Staffordshire, England. Landywood forms part of the parish and village of Great Wyrley, and together with Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay, forms a community with a combined population in 2001 of almost 20,000. For the population as taken at the 2011 census see Great Wyrley. The village lies within the district of South Staffordshire, and is separated from the town of Cannock to the north by the M6 Toll motorway, and the A5 road. It is served by Landywood railway station on the Chase Line, which runs from Birmingham via Walsall to Rugeley Trent Valley. National Express West Midlands bus service X51 provides a connection to Cannock via the McArthurGlen Designer outlet as well as Walsall, Bloxwich, Great Barr and Birmingham. D&G Chaserider service 1A connects Landywood with Cheslyn Hay to and from Cannock and Walsall. Chaserider 71 links Landywood with Huntington, Cannock, Essington, Wednesfield and Wolverhampton. Landywood is part of the South Staffordshire ward named "Great Wyrley Landywood", which is just over one mile south of the Great Wyrley ward. It also lies slightly under three miles north of Bloxwich, just over three miles south from Cannock and five-and-a-half miles north from Walsall.The exact boundaries of Landywood are uncertain, but their proximation on maps may roughly locate the area as stretching from Landywood railway station down to Holly Lane, on which Landywood Primary School is located, and the southernmost point of Landywood and the Great Wyrley parish.

Landywood railway station is situated in the village of Landywood in Staffordshire, England. As well as Landywood, the station also serves the adjacent villages of Cheslyn Hay and Great Wyrley (The former Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay railway station closed in the 1960s). The LNWR also operated an earlier halt at Landywood which closed on 1 January 1916. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by West Midlands Railway.