Kingswinford
Kingswinford is a town of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the English West Midlands, situated 5 miles west-southwest of central Dudley, bordering the South Staffordshire district.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Roger Kidd, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kingswinford Academy and Ketley Claypit.
Kingswinford Academy
School
Kingswinford Academy is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Kingswinford, West Midlands, England. The school is run by the standard English Education System and operates with Year 7, 8 and 9 falling under KS3 and Year 10 and 11 falling under KS4, with students choosing their GCSE subjects in Year 9 and beginning their two-year GCSE learning in Year 10.
Ketley Claypit
Quarry
Photo: Gordon Griffiths, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ketley Claypit is a 13.7 hectares geological site of Special Scientific Interest in the West Midlands. The site was notified in 1990 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. It is located in Kingswinford.
Holbeche House
Historic house
Photo: Gordon Griffiths, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Holbeche House is a mansion located approximately 1 mile north of Kingswinford, now in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley but historically in Staffordshire. Some members of the Gunpowder Plot were either killed or captured at Holbeche House in 1605.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wall Heath and Bromley.
Wall Heath
Village
Wall Heath is a suburban village in the Dudley Metropolitan Borough in the West Midlands of England. It is located on the A449 road, approximately 1.5 miles northwest of Kingswinford, 5 miles west of Dudley Town Centre and 9 miles north of Kidderminster.
Bromley
Village
Bromley is a residential area of Kingswinford, West Midlands, England. It was a rural area for many centuries, mostly consisting of farmland, but since the Second World War has been extensively developed for upmarket private housing.
Wordsley
Village
Photo: Roger Kidd, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wordsley is a suburban village near Stourbridge in the West Midlands, England. It is part of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley and is north of the River Stour.
Kingswinford
- Type: Village with 20,000 residents
- Description: suburban area of the Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England
- Categories: post town, town, suburb, and locality
- Location: Dudley, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.49677° or 52° 29′ 48″ northLongitude
-2.16617° or 2° 9′ 58″ westPopulation
20,000Elevation
279 feet (85 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB KGWOpen location code
9C4VFRWM+PGOpenStreetMap ID
node 137482328OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Swedish—“Kingswinford” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Kingswinford”
- Basque: “Kingswinford”
- Catalan: “Kingswinford”
- Cebuano: “Kingswinford”
- Danish: “Kingswinford”
- French: “Kingswinford”
- German: “Kingswinford”
- Japanese: “キングスウィンフォード”
- Ladin: “Kingswinford”
- Latin: “Swinford Regis”
- Polish: “Kingswinford”
- Spanish: “Kingswinford (Stafford)”
- Spanish: “Kingswinford”
- Swedish: “Kingswinford”
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Notable Places Nearby
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