Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan ward in the West Midlands, England. At the 2011 statistics, it had a populace of 249,470. The demonym for individuals from the city is 'Wulfrunian'. Verifiably part of Staffordshire, the city is named after Wulfrun, who established the town in 985, from the Anglo-Saxon Wulfruneheantun "Wulfrun's high or foremost fenced in area or farm".

Prior to the Norman Conquest, the territory's name seems just as iations of Heantune or Hamtun, the prefix Wulfrun or comparable showing up in 1070 and thereafter. Alternatively, the city may have earned its unique name from Wulfereeantun "Wulfhere's high or important walled in area or ranch" after the Mercian King, who convention discloses to us set up a monastery in 659, however no proof of a nunnery has been found. The iety Wolveren Hampton is seen in medieval records, e.g. in 1381.

The city developed at first as a market town work in the woolen exchange. In the Industrial Revolution, it turned into a noteworthy place for coal mining, steel creation, bolt making and the produce of autos and bikes. The economy of the city is as yet dependent on building, including an expansive airplane business, and also the administration area. A neighborhood custom expresses that King Wulfhere of Mercia established a nunnery of St Mary at Wolverhampton in 659.