Talk:Metropolitan Borough of Dudley

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:09, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Former counties
This article states that the metropolitan borough of Dudley "is made up of the towns of Dudley (where the council has its headquarters), Stourbridge (again, another council administration hq), Halesowen, Brierley Hill, Amblecote, Sedgley and Coseley." It goes on to say that "The area is historically part of the counties of Worcestershire and Staffordshire." On the other hand, the article on Halesowen states that "Halesowen was traditionally an isolated and separate part of the County of Shropshire...." The article on Shropshire has a simlar statement.

In that case, wouldn't the correct statement be that "The area is historically part of the counties of Worcestershire, Staffordshire, and Shropshire"? I have no direct knowledge of this other than what I read in the three articles, so I have not made a correction. Jim (talk) 19:58, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Jim. I have put a little end note into the article's sentence , excluding Halesowen, a detached part of Shropshire before 1844. Like every detached part, Halesowen became part of its surrounding county under the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844. Apart from some manorial rights and ecclesiastical rights on churchyards etc., the former county became completely redundant. The changes were largely forgotton by the vast majority, several generations on: making administration simpler and never having created any real bonds with the old host county. Adam37 (talk) 13:41, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

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