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¬ ¬ ¬ D Y WALK but also your sense of well-being. The following details will help you work out ¬ ¬ T ¬ A ¬ D ¬ ¬ D ¬ A O A ¬ how many steps you have taken and how much energy you have used: TREE ¬ O R O R ¬ R ¬ E ¬ ROAD E ¬ G ¬ LIMES HIGH S G ¬ E ¬ 1 mile = 1760 - 2640 steps (depending on the length of your stride) E ¬ LL LL O ¬ ¬ C OD CO ¬ ¬ (1 mile = 1.6 kilometres) ¬ ¬ HENWO ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ 6 10,000 steps = the recommended daily number of steps to keep healthy ¬ ¬ 6 ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ 1. Clock Tower Walking 1 mile burns approximately 100 calories ¬ ¬ 5 2. Dickens Restaurant & Cottages BY WALKING THIS TRAIL YOU WILL HAVE: 3. Old Drinking Fountain Walked 1 1/4 miles (2km), taken approximately 2,500 steps and burnt 125 4. The Limes calories 5. Octagonal Lodge Regeneration & Environment 6. The Old House Wolverhampton City Council • Civic Centre 7. Rock Tavern St Peter's Square • Wolverhampton WV1 1RP 8. Rock House Telephone: 01902 555625 / 555617 9. The Green House [email protected] 10. The White House 11. The House by the Church 12. Lich Gate 13. St. Michael & All Angels Church A WALK AROUND THE HISTORIC 14. Listed terrace
15. Arts and Crafts Cottages VILLAGE OF TETTENHALL Danescourt Farm 16. Danescourt Farm 17. The Pool Recycled paper
TETTENHALL VILLAGE TRAIL C ontinue along the red cobbled street 20 meters. A t the end of College Road cross into the car park of the Rock SALOP 28 Tavern. WOLVERHAMPTON 2 A little further along on LONDON 126 the green outside the The Rock Tavern used to be called the Old Rose and INTRODUCTION shops stands an old Crown public house. A bowling green and grounds were NB As there is no pavement here it is not advisable to drinking fountain that laid out by G. Spink in 1843. The Rock Villa gardens attempt to find this marker. The village of Tettenhall has a history which goes back at least was donated to the attracted tourists from Wolverhampton in the 1850s with a thousand years to Saxon times when it was probably a more village in 1890 by amusements such as public dancing, fireworks and On the opposite side of the Rock stands the lodge to Avenue important settlement than nearby Wolverhampton. The Horatio Gibbs Powell. ballooning. Remnants of the gardens still survive for the House with its three cylindrical chimneys built shortly after Medieval village was extensive being centred on the two greens The fountain was use of patrons of the public house and from here there are The Rock was cut. bisected by a sandstone ridge. Whilst the town of restored and moved to good views across Wolverhampton. Wolverhampton grew as a result of the industrial prosperity in ross the road at the pelican crossing to Lower Green. this position in the year C the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Tettenhall remained 2000 having originally essentially an agricultural community. It soon became In Medieval times Lower Green was much larger than the been located near to the something of a resort from Wolverhampton, for leisure and 3 1/2 acres it covers today. It still retains its rural character. junction of Wergs Road then as a place of residence. A number of quality houses and A number of fine houses overlook The Green including the and Wrottesley Road villas were built and the development eventually spread over the White House, The Green House and The House by the where it had been at fields which had once supported crops and livestock. In 1966 Church all of which are listed buildings. risk of damage from the village officially became part of greater Wolverhampton but passing vehicles. The it has retained its identity and evidence of its historical o to the far end of Church Road and stop at the Lich Gate. lantern on the top is a G development can still be traced on the ground. The Old Drinking Fountain replica of the original St. Michael and All Angels Church was built in the The Tettenhall Trail takes you on a walk around the village fourteenth century on the site of a Saxon Church of which pointing out some of its important buildings and historic sites. T urn south towards the High Street then cross back over the unfortunately nothing remains today. The only surviving road to the Green and walk towards Limes Road. section of the fourteenth century Church is the tower. The NB Because of the hilly nature of Tettenhall those with porch dates from the nineteenth century but the remainder The large house on the corner to your right known as The Rock Tavern
BLACK walking problems are likely to find sections of the trail was replaced after a devastating fire on 2 February 1950. difficult due to steep slopes and steps. Younger children Limes was once owned by a Baptist Minister, the Reverend The Fire Brigade was late arriving on the scene and their should be accompanied by an adult as some roads are very Philip Popplestone Rowe in the late nineteenth century, C ross back over the road and walk to the foot of Old Hill. engine actually got stuck trying to pass through the Lich busy or have no pavements. The Trail should take between 1 and was used as a Gentleman's Boarding School. A blue Gate. The marks can still be seen in the woodwork! In plaque on the gateway records that it was also once the and 1 1/2 hours to complete. The brick, three storey mid eighteenth century house on the addition the water supply which had been cut off during the YELLOW home of Dr S. C. Dyce, the last Chairman of Tettenhall left known as Rock House has been home to many local A he Trail starts at the Clock Tower on Upper Green. Council which was amalgamated with Wolverhampton in businessmen and entrepreneurs in the past. T 1966. This area of open space In 1930 the Roman Catholic Church took the building over was previously known as C ontinue along Limes Road and turn left into Nursery Walk. and the former ballroom was used for worship. Thirty-five MAGENT Marsh Green but the name years later in 1965, the Church moved into their new This is an area of modest terraced cottages which were Upper Green had certainly premises at St. Thomas of Canterbury Church off Wood AN erected between 1850-1870. Many are dated and named. come into use by 1780. In Road. Look out for the rather grand titles COSHAM PLACE and CY 1861 there was a proposal to enclose most of the EASTNEY PLACE. common land of Upper Green and sell it off, but a A t the end of Nursery Walk cross the end of the High Street to campaign by the villagers the junction with College Road. defeated the proposal and so preserved the Green for Here is the entrance to Tettenhall College, formerly St. Michael and All Angels Church posterity. The clock tower Tettenhall Towers, which was built in about 1770. The was presented to the Urban octagonal lodge with its balustraded parapet and matching war was never reinstated and as a result water had to be District of Tettenhall by Mr gate piers with their pedimented caps and Greek key brought from the nearby canal. You will find the names of and Mrs Edward Swindley pattern decoration were erected in the last century. Half many prominent Wolverhampton families in the on 22 June 1912 in honour way along College Road on the right stands the Old House, churchyard. Look out for Thorneycroft (the family that lived
of George V's Coronation. Tettenhall Clock Tower dated 1725. at Tettenhall Towers also on this trail) Beattie (as in the department store), Fowler (family name of the first Lord ross the road and take the steps up to Dickens restaurant. C Wolverhampton), Mander (wealthy industrialists who built Wightwick Manor) and many more, and the grave of an Dickens restaurant and the two adjacent cottages with their ogee-headed entrances date from the first half of the armless woman, a seamstress who worked on a Sunday and was supposedly punished by God for it. This latter grave
nineteenth century. Rock House can be located by turning left at the second tree along the Behind the house can be seen an exposed section of the path to the north of the Church. Continue about three rows sandstone ridge which divided the village in two until of graves in from the path and you will find it at your feet lying down in the undergrowth. From here take the path Thomas Telford cut through The Rock, using gunpowder, which goes from behind the tower and climbs up the ridge. between 1820-23 to form part of the improvements to the Along the way note the huge Yew trees reputed to be a London to Holyhead road (A41). thousand years old.
Evidence suggests in fact that it was not the route favoured NB An excellent guide book is available in the Church. by Telford, but he was over-ruled by local engineers and the Wolverhampton Turnpike Trust. There is a marker Continue up the steps to the top of the ridge until you reach stone halfway down the cutting which states Church Hill Road. Octagonal Lodge Dickens Restaurant and Cottages