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phased closure beginning in July 2011, with the 12- and 13-year-old pupils transferring to new schools in September that year, and no 11-year-olds being admitted. However, the school's oldest two year groups remained at the school to complete their studies before it finally closed completely in July 2013. Most children living in the Pensnett area now attend Crestwood School in
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in Tiled House Lane which was previously known as Pensnett School of Technology and Pensnett Secondary Modern School, having opened in 1932. The school changed from Pensnett School of Technology to Pensnett High School in 2007. However, after much speculation about its future, it was scheduled for a
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The present settlement of Pensnett dates only from the period after the inclosure of Pensnett Chase. Pensnett was made part of the parish of St Mark's, Pensnett in 1844. Towards the end of the 19th century the area began a period of dramatic change. Several factories were built in Pensnett and the
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The local authority's Learning Support centre was situated on Birds Meadow from 1978 until 1989, within the buildings of the former Birds Meadow Infant School which dated back to the 1930s. The site was redeveloped for private housing in the early 1990s.
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factory workers were mostly employed in the iron and steel industries. Many terraced houses with shop fronts were developed along the village's High Street around the start of the 20th century, but the biggest changes were yet to come.
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as belonging to those manors. There is a rifle range on the chase at barrow bank which was being used for practice firing by volunteer regiments from at least 1860 through till 1920 with many
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has gradually expanded since about 1970. It was mostly developed in the 1980s. It includes many industrial and commercial businesses, and since 2000 has included a
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Council followed the example of almost every local authority in Britain and built houses which were to be rented to working-class families. Several hundred
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is situated in Pensnett, near St Mark's Church. The hill in the reserve is formed by an extinct volcano, which erupted around 315 million years ago.
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in Kingswinford parish, but contiguous with Dudley Wood in Dudley. As such, it belonged to the lords of the manor, descending as part of the
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were built in the Pensnett area between 1920 and 1966, although a large percentage of the village's homes were privately owned.
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closed in 1932 and the freight sidings closed in 1994 although some sections of track remain buried in the undergrowth.
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is Bromley Pensnett Primary School, situated just around the corner from the site of Pensnett High School.
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from medieval times. With Dudley Wood, it is probably the woodland mentioned in the
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The present Pensnett covers a small portion of what was a large common called
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The name Pensnett is from the Celtic 'pen', for hill and the Anglo-Saxon
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of Dudley, later the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley from 1974.
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for 'a piece of woodland'. For many years, it was used as
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