John Hodgetts Hodgetts-Foley (17 July 1797 – 13 November 1861), born John Hodgetts Foley, of Prestwood House (then in Kingswinford, and now in Kinver) in Staffordshire was a British MP.
In the 1820s, several wharves were built on the Fens Branch, to serve the developing collieries near Kingswinford, and the company considered applying for a new Act of Parliament in 1829, to give them powers to build extra lines in this area, but they did not proceed.
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A separate company built the Stourbridge Extension Canal from the Fens Branch to Shut End (in Kingswinford) thus opening up another part of the coalfield to development.
Although the newspaper was created 11 years after the creation of the modern Dudley borough, it only covers Dudley and the neighbouring towns of Sedgley, Coseley, Brierley Hill and Kingswinford.
In the early modern period, the Dudley portion came to be known as Dudley Wood and the name was largely reserved for the portion in Kingswinford.
Although the main campus is situated in the town of Stourbridge, there are additional campuses in Brierley Hill, Kingswinford, Kidderminster, and Halesowen.