The Russells Hall Estate is a residential area of

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, West Midlands, England, approximately one mile to the west of Dudley town centre. On Ordnance Survey maps the area appears as Russell's Hall.

History

The estate was once the grounds to Russells Hall, a large country house. The hall stood on the land until the early 1800s, where Grange Park is now. The area was extensively mined for coal during the

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, which meant the district became highly industrialised in the heyday of the

Black Country The Black Country is an 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. The road between Wolverhampto ...

's industrial past. This process ceased in about 1950 when the local council earmarked the area for housing development, to rehouse hundreds of families from the dilapidated 19th-century terraces in the town centre around The Inhedge and Stafford Street. The land at Russells Hall was then made safe and allowed to settle until house building commenced. The first house was completed and let in 1958, and by 1966 the estate was complete, consisting of several hundred council houses and flats as well as some private houses, mostly around Scott's Green Close on the south side of the estate. Several more private and council properties, including about 30 council bungalows, were added in the 1970s around Middlepark Road. Until the creation of the traffic island near

Russells Hall Hospital Russells Hall Hospital is an NHS general hospital located in Dudley, West Midlands, England, managed by the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital is south-west of the town centre on the A4101 road, which connects to the Kingswinford ...

, it was possible to see part of the blocked-up portal of a bridge which took a railway line under Kingswinford Road.

Services and facilities

The estate is served by several schools including Russells Hall Primary School on Overfield Road and the Pegasus Academy on Scotts Green Close. Sutton School, a

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, is also on Scotts Green Close. The area is served by

, a general hospital which stands on Pensnett Road to the south of the estate. A large area of public open space, known as Russells Hall park, exists around the centre of the estate and in 2005 was earmarked by

Dudley council Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, also known as Dudley Council, is the Local government in England, local authority for the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. The town of Dudley had been a B ...

as a possible site for mass housing development. The park has a children’s play area,

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and a non-turf cricket pitch.

References

{{Wards of Dudley Areas of Dudley Housing estates in England

History

Services and facilities

See also

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