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Brownhills is located at on the edge of Cannock Chase and lies mostly at a height of approximately 150 metres ( 492 ft ) above sea level, although there is a sharp incline to nearly 180 metres ( 590 ft ) at the eastern end of the town.
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Brownhills is a town in the West Midlands, England.
Brownhills is situated on the ancient Watling Street and there is evidence of early settlement in the area, including an ancient burial mound and a guard post believed to date from Roman times and later dubbed Knaves Castle.
The name Brownhills, however, is not recorded before the 17th century.
Brownhills is represented by three tiers of government, Walsall Borough Council (" local "), UK Parliament (" national "), and European Parliament (" Europe ").
Brownhills is part of the Walsall council counting area of the West Midlands European Parliament constituency, which elects six MEPs.
Currently, the main football club in the town is Brownhills Community Colts, a youth club which has existed since the 1970s and fields teams in various age groups, as well as teams for children with disabilities.
Brownhills has no dedicated local newspaper of its own, but is covered by newspapers published in Wolverhampton and Walsall.
In 1956 the reservoir is purchased by Brownhills Urban District Council from the British Transport Commission for £ 5, 600 and the reservoir is renamed Chasewater.
The Lichfield Canal, as it is now known, was historically a part of the Wyrley and Essington Canal, being the section of that canal from Ogley Junction at Brownhills on the northern Birmingham Canal Navigations to Huddlesford Junction, east of Lichfield, on the Coventry Canal, a length of 7 miles ( 11. 3 km ).
A similar site is Brownhills in West Midlands.
The main road through Heath Town is the A4124 Wednesfield Road, which runs westwards to Wolverhampton and eastwards to Bloxwich and eventually Brownhills.
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Pending planned restoration to Huddlesford, the navigable mainline now terminates at Ogley Junction near Brownhills.
It also became part of the borough of Walsall at this time, having originally been an independent local authority and then being merged with neighbouring Brownhills to form Aldridge-Brownhills UDC in 1966.
During the 18th and 19th centuries the area known as Coppice Side was the hub of the mining industry, and the census of 1841 showed that over 80 % of the population of the area which makes up modern Brownhills lived and worked there, with up to ten pits active in the area at any one time.
Seven miners, including a boy aged 11, died in an accident in 1861, and in October 1930 an explosion at the Grove Colliery killed fourteen miners, ten of them from Brownhills.
Many other ex-industrial diesel and petrol locomotives, in various stages of restoration, are also present at Brownhills West.
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19th century examples with a definitely educational aim include the fable series used on the alphabet plates issued in great numbers from the Brownhills Pottery in Staffordshire.
Brownhills miners depicted on a picture postcard from 1904
By the time of the Second World War the mines of Brownhills, being amongst the oldest in the area, were largely exhausted, and following the nationalisation of the mining industry the final pit on the Common was closed in the 1950s.
Today Brownhills constitutes a ward within the Borough of Walsall and has three seats on the Borough Council.
The Brownhills Canoe and Outdoor Centre opened in 2006, funded by British Waterways with the assistance of partners such as Sport England, the European Regional Development Fund and Walsall Council, and offers canoeing and kayaking lessons on the canal, close to the centre of town.
Edgar Ewart Pritchard, an amateur film-maker from Brownhills, produced " The Island in the Current ", a colour movie of life on Bardsey Island, in 1953.
In 1794, the company obtained a second act, which authorised a long extension from Birchills to Brownhills, again on the level, but then descending through 30 locks to reach Huddlesford Junction, on the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal near Lichfield.
Principally this was on domestic china and includes a Chelsea candlestick ( 1750 ) and a Worcester jug ( 1754 ) in the 18th century ; a Brownhills alphabet plate ( 1888 ) in the 19th century ; and a collector's edition from the Knowles pottery ( 1988 ) in the 20th.
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Although a small river called Crane Brook flows slightly to the east of Brownhills, the only significant bodies of water in the area are human-made, namely the canal and the reservoir Chasewater, which lies to the north, between Brownhills and Cannock Chase.
Nearby places are Brownhills, Cannock, Cannock Wood, Norton Canes, Gentleshaw, Hammerwich and Lichfield.
Very regular buses link Bloxwich with Walsall, whilst others link the area to the surrounding towns of Wolverhampton, Bilston, Willenhall, Brownhills, Wednesfield, Cannock and Hednesford.
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The western dam stretches from approximately north of Brownhills West station to Norton East Road.
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Brownhills quickly grew around the coal mining industry, especially after it became linked to the canal and railway networks in the mid-19th century, and by the end of the century had grown from a hamlet of only 300 inhabitants to a town with a population of over, of whom the vast majority were employed in the coal industry.
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This led to the gradual amalgamation of Brownhills, Ogley Hay and Catshill into one town.
In 1877 the town of Brownhills was officially recognised for the first time after a new Act authorised the amalgamation of rural districts into larger local government areas.
The A4124 Wolverhampton to Brownhills road crosses to the north of the town.
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Brownhills alphabet plate, Aesop's Fables series, The Fox and the Grapes c. 1880
Neighbouring towns in the borough include Brownhills, Willenhall, Bloxwich and Aldridge.
Beyond Ogley Hay lay Catshill, another hamlet which pre-dated Brownhills and which lay within the parish of Shenstone.
In 1794 Brownhills ( now in the plural ) was included in a list of local settlements mentioned in an Act of Parliament concerning canals in Staffordshire, and three years later the Wyrley & Essington Canal, nicknamed the " Curly Wyrley " by the locals due to its winding course, was opened.
The South Staffordshire Railway reached Brownhills in 1850 and led to a huge expansion of the local mining operation and with it a population explosion in the area, with the population increasing from 305 in 1801 to over 13, 000 in 1891.
In 1858 a branch line was constructed through the heart of what was then the hamlet of Brownhills, which led to a migration of the population eastwards, leading to the formation of mining slums in the Ogley Hay area.
Mining was to remain the principal industry of Brownhills until the last pit closed in the 1950s.
As in other mining areas, several men lost their lives in the Brownhills pits.
The final farmland within the boundaries of Brownhills was sold for redevelopment in 1952.
The Council House was originally the seat of Brownhills District Council.
The Brownhills District established in 1877 remained in existence until 1894 when it was superseded by Brownhills Urban District.
As a result of this amalgamation Brownhills also became part of the West Midlands county, having previously been part of Staffordshire.
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