West Bromwich

West Bromwich is the largest town within the metropolitan borough of Sandwell, in the English county of West Midlands, five miles north west of Birmingham. It is sometimes considered a part of the Black Country.

Features

The town has a football team, West Bromwich Albion. Engineering and chemicals are important to the town's economy, and a technical college is located there.

Related Topics:
Football - West Bromwich Albion

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William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth had his seat at Sandwell Hall. Legge was unusual as an aristocrat of this period by being a Methodist and attending the Wednesbury Methodist meetings, where fellow Methodist - many of them colliers and drovers - knew him as "Brother Earl". See Black Country Methodism.

Related Topics:
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth - Methodist - Wednesbury - Black Country Methodism

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