Modern housing on Wakeley Hill in Penn, Wolverhampton

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Modern housing on Wakeley Hill in Penn, Wolverhampton

Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 29 Mar 2012

Off to the left is The Fold. Wakeley Hill leads from near the A449 to Penn Common and the Barley Mow public house. In Victorian times this was Wakeley Lane (not Hill), and was often called Workhouse Lane*. Before the building of the golf course, the old route also continued (unsurfaced) to Gospel End. * Old tithe maps from the 1840s show the workhouse about 220 metres further up the hill, and on the right, past Butts Road. It is now called Ivy Terrace.

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