Black Country

Region
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	Etymology: Effects of industry or coal mining
	The metropolitan boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall highlighted within the West Midlands metropolitan county
	Coordinates: 52°32′N 2°2′W / 52.533°N 2.033°W
Area
• Total	138 sq mi (360 km2)
Highest elevation	889 ft (271 m)

The Black Country is a region of the West Midlands in England, west of Birmingham,^[1] and commonly refers to all or part of the four Metropolitan Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.^[2]

Black Country Media

South Staffordshire in 1911. The Black Country lies to the west and north-west of the city of Birmingham.
The local government structure within North Worcestershire and South Staffordshire before the West Midlands 1965 reorganisation
Mining the thick coal seam at one of the Earl of Dudley's pits in the 1870s
The Oak House, West Bromwich. A Yeoman Farmer's house dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, it represents a rare surviving building from the pre-industrial Black Country.
An 18th century enamelled snuff box made in Bilston, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The ironworks of W. Barrows and Sons, Tipton. Canals were of crucial importance in the development of Black Country industry.
Glass cones where glass was made and worked were once a common sight in Brierley Hill, Amblecote and Wordsley. This example, now a museum, is in Wordsley near Stourbridge
Chain making, once a major Black Country industry, as demonstrated at the Black Country Living Museum.
A dark seam of coal is clearly visible on the sides of Doultons Clay Pit, in Saltwells Wood to the south of Netherton