Bloxwich

 town, urban/built-up area

Bloxwich is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England, with a population of around 40,000 people. Bloxwich has its origins at least as early as the Anglo-Saxon period, when the place name evidence suggests it was a small Mercian settlement named after the family of Bloc (Bloxwich, earlier Blochescwic, meaning "Bloc's village").In the early 19th century, Bloxwich was still a village. Most of its inhabitants were employed in the newly founded mining and forging industries, as well as light metalworking. It is also known for its canals.

Today, Bloxwich town centre is still mostly made up of Victorian and Edwardian buildings and leafy parks and gardens, which maintain its origins as a Staffordshire village. Good built examples are Bloxwich Hospital, Bloxwich Hall, All Saints Church and several private houses in Station Street, Stafford Road, Wolverhampton Street and Sandbank. In recent years, much good work has been done restoring Bloxwich parks and gardens and some of the old High Street shops, and present-day Bloxwich is still a pleasant place to live, with an independent spirit and unique character.

Today the people of Bloxwich are represented on Walsall MBC through the councilors elected from the wards of Bloxwich East & Bloxwich West (see outline map above).Bloxwich includes the following neighbourhoods : Houghville, Blakenall Heath, Beechdale, Harden, Little Bloxwich, Wallington Heath, Mossley, Turnberry Estate, Dudley Fields, Goscote, Leamore, Lower Farm Estate.

for more history of Bloxwich see @:
cms.walsall.gov.uk/index/bloxwich_in_history.htm
www.thebloxidgetallygraph.com/bloxwichhistory.htm

for downloadable detailed maps of Walsall wards used in drawing attached polygon see @:
cms.walsall.gov.uk/index/council_and_democracy/election...