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Bilston

A West Midlands civil parish and market town is Bilston. In Staffordshire, Bilston East and Bilston North, which entirely comprise Bilston parts, and which comprises Wolverhampton parts and a Bilston part, Ettingshall, include three wards of Wolverhampton City Council that cover the town. Improving Bilston's road links with West Bromwich and Birmingham, Black Country Spine Road opened at the same time. At what was known as Bilston Steel Works, five of these were producing a total of nearly 25,000 tons of steel per year.

The Black Country Route phase between the M6's Junction 10 and Bilston town centre was completed during 1995. Sometimes believed incorrectly to be in Bilston, manor Primary School, which used to be a secondary school, is within the Coseley Wolverhampton-governed part in Woodcross. The case of David Brandrick, "Bilston Murderer", scandalised Bilston in 1862. For years, Bilston has had a market in the town centre.

When to Wulfrun Wolverhampton was granted, Bilston was referred to as Bilsatena in AD 985 then as Bilsetnatun in 996 in St. Mary's Church grant charter (St. Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton). Under the Local Government Act 1894 covering the parish of Bilston, Bilston Urban District Council was formed in 1894. The adjoining Leisure Centre of Bert Williams, which form the centrepiece of the town's Urban Village which is planned to include a total of more than 1,000 new homes, the Academy of South Wolverhampton and Bilston include the 21st century developments in Bilston.

A exorcist known as The White Rabbit was brought in as by an evil spirit the coal mines of Bilston were haunted reputedly. The wooden statues group called "Steel Columns " and designed by Robert Koenig can be seen at Bilston end of the Black Country Route. South Wolverhampton and Moseley Park School, (formerly Fraser Street Schools) which was Secondary Modern of Etheridge, and Bilston Academy and Bilston Boys' Grammar School include many schools, and two secondary schools that Bilston has. Opened on 3 August 1833, Bilston had a School for Cholera Orphans during (1829-51) the second cholera pandemic after an outbreak which had left 450 orphans in Bilston after the death of 742 sufferers.

Bilston has been high-profile crimes' scene in recent years, some of which highlight growing problems of the town with gang culture and gun and knife crime. After the Second World War, Bilston's revolution of council housing continued and in 1966 some time after the area became a Wolverhampton part. Almost all of Bilston's housing that is sub-standard had been cleared by the end of the 1970s, but the area was in industrial decline early stages which saw its highest levels of unemployment reach in living memory and put hundreds of people out of work.