Baggeridge Colliery was a colliery located in Sedgley, Staffordshire (was West Midlands), England.
It is situated approximately one mile south-west of Sedgley town centre and incorporates some of the grounds of Ellowes Hall, a stately home which was built in the early 19th century and demolished in 1964, which has let to the wooded part of the valley being known locally as "Ellowes Hall Wood".
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.
He inherited the Willingsworth estate and the rest of the manor of Sedgley on the death of his father in 1720, and the entailed portion of the Dudley estates on the death of his cousin William Ward, 5th Baron Ward in 1740.
Sedgley Beacon Hill provides views across the Black Country, Cannock Chase and Birmingham to the east, and to the Wrekin, Clee Hills and Malvern Hills to the west; on very clear days it is possible to see the hills of North Staffordshire and Derbyshire, as well as the mountains of both North and South Wales.
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The Gospel End area, however, was merged into the Seisdon Rural District (later South Staffordshire), and the Goldthorn Park estate in the extreme north of the area was transferred into Wolverhampton.
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Daniel Sedgley Mitchell is a famous photographer best known for his series of stereoscopic views of the Black Hills in 1876, his Indian portraits from the Red Cloud Agency in 1877, and his photographs of the Oklahoma Land Rush in 1889.
Between 1996 and 1999, he taught at Cotwall End Primary School in Sedgley, West Midlands, in the junior department of the school.
Briggs began his career with West Bromwich Albion, joining them on leaving Sedgley's Dormston School in the summer of 1998 and making six appearances for the Baggies before moving to Danish football for 2 seasons with Herfølge in 2003.
Straits Estate is a housing estate located near Sedgley, West Midlands, England, to the north-west of Gornal Ward, and was built for homeowners during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The dissolution of Tipton Municipal Borough saw the bulk of the authority absorbed into an expanded borough of West Bromwich, while most of the Tividale area of Tipton was absorbed into the new County Borough of Warley (centred on the towns of Oldbury, Smethwick and Rowley Regis) and a small section of the Tipton Green area (including the former council offices in Sedgley Road West) was absorbed into an expanded County Borough of Dudley.