page_title: Pensnett
section_title: History of Pensnett
hierarchical_section_title: Pensnett / History of Pensnett
caption_attribution_description: English: Church of God of Prophecy, High Oak, Pensnett, West Midlands, seen from the southeast. Formerly an Independent Methodist church.
context_page_description: Pensnett is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England, situated 2.3 miles south-west of central Dudley. Pensnett has been a part of Dudley since 1966, when the Brierley Hill Urban District, of which it was a part, was absorbed into the County Borough of Dudley, later the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley from 1974.
context_section_description: 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 face of the area began a period of dramatic change. Several factories were built in Pensnett and the 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.
  After World War I, Brierley Hill Urban District Council followed the example of almost every other local authority in Britain and built houses which were to be rented out to working-class families. Several hundred council houses were built in the Pensnett area between 1920 and 1966, although a large percentage of the village's homes were privately owned.
caption: The Church of God of Prophecy
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