Halesowen

Halesowen is a metropolis within the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands, England. Historically in Worcestershire, the metropolis is round 14 km from Birmingham city centre, and 10 km from Dudley town centre. The population of the city, as measured with the aid of the UK Census 2011, became 58,135. Halesowen is blanketed within the Halesowen and Rowley Regis constituency that's held by means of the Conservative James Morris.

The fundamental enterprise of Halesowen changed into historically nail making, an enterprise that turned into performed on a small scale for my part within the backyards of a big iety of nail makers. Halesowen also had, together with maximum different areas of the Black Country, a huge iety of above and underground coal mines. In more current years, the appearance of a junction of the toll road network allowed Halesowen to draw a number of huge organisations to the metropolis. Sandvik's UK headquarters are placed right here as well as Somers Forge, Fortune, SomersTotalKare and the Mucklow Group.

Communicourt are the leadingproviders of Non-registered Intermediaries to the criminal and family courts and its headquarters are in Halesowen. Transport within the city is overseen via Transport for West Midlands, the county's delivery authority. Halesowen, as mentioned above, is no longer served by a railway station. It is however served through a fairly complete bus community, and is at the Hagley Road Bus Corridor from Birmingham to Stourbridge direction nine, the Merry Hill Shopping Centre path 002, 13, 17 and X10 and Dudley course 14.