Black Country
The Black Country is a loosely defined area of England's West Midlands. It is mainly urban, covering most of the Dudley and Sandwell metropolitan boroughs, with the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall and the City of Wolverhampton.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Area
- Description: area of the West Midlands in England
- Also known as: “The Black Country”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Langley Green railway station and Titford Engine House.
Langley Green railway station
Railway station
Photo: Michael Westley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Langley Green railway station serves the Langley Green area of the town of Oldbury in Sandwell, in the West Midlands, England. It is located on the Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line.
Titford Engine House
Historic building
Photo: John M, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Titford Engine House is a historic building.
West Smethwick Park
Park
Photo: Pigsonthewing, CC BY-SA 4.0.
West Smethwick Park is a public park in the St Pauls ward of Smethwick, England. It opened on 7 September 1895 on land donated by James Timmings Chance.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oldbury and Langley Green.
Oldbury
Town
Photo: Gordon Griffiths, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oldbury is a market town in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell, in the county of the West Midlands, England. It is the administrative centre of the borough.
Langley Green
Village
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Langley Green is an area of the town of Oldbury, on the B4169 road, in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the English county of West Midlands. The appropriate ward of Sandwell is simply called Langley.
Lyng
Hamlet
Lyng is a residential area of West Bromwich in the West Midlands of England. It is situated in the south of the town near the border with Oldbury - and part of Oldbury's Ring Road actually borders the southern part of the area.
Black Country
- Category: territory
- Location: Sandwell, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Black Country” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Black Country”
- Bengali: “কালাস্তান”
- Bengali: “ব্ল্যাক কান্ট্রি”
- Catalan: “Black Country”
- Chinese: “黑鄉”
- Czech: “Black Country”
- Dutch: “Black Country”
- Finnish: “Black Country”
- French: “Black Country”
- German: “Black Country”
- Hindi: “कृष्णदेश”
- Hungarian: “Black Country”
- Italian: “Black Country”
- Japanese: “ブラック・カントリー”
- Japanese: “ブラックカントリー”
- Japanese: “黒い国”
- Japanese: “黒郷”
- Latin: “Black Country”
- Latin: “Pagus Ater”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Black Country”
- Persian: “سرزمین سیاه”
- Polish: “Black Country”
- Scots: “Black Kintra Inglis”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Black Country”
- Slovak: “Black Country”
- Spanish: “Black Country”
- Swedish: “Black Country”
- Urdu: “کالاستان”
- Welsh: “Y Wlad Ddu”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Rood End and Tat Bank.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bromford Stop and Sandwell & Dudley railway station.
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