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3 unusual facts about Wednesfield


Lisa Kehler

Lisa Martine Kehler (née Langford; born 15 March 1967 in Wednesfield, Staffordshire) is a female race walker from England, who twice competed for Great Britain at the Summer Olympics (1992 and 2000).

Medicine Head

Fiddler and Hope-Evans met when they both attended Wednesfield Grammar School, Wolverhampton, and then Stafford Art School.

Tessa Sanderson

There is a housing estate named after her in her adopted home town of Wednesfield: Sanderson Park.


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Battle of Tettenhall

The Battle of Tettenhall (sometimes called the Battle of Wednesfield or Wōdnesfeld) took place, according to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, near Tettenhall on 5 August 910.

Religion in Mercia

Placenames like Wednesfield and Wednesbury perhaps suggest that the worship of Woden was particularly prominent, and that there was a cluster of late pagan practice near Birmingham: there are no surviving toponyms relating to Thunor, for example, although Tiw may be connected to Tyseley, Tysemere and Tysoe.


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