page_title: Darlaston
section_title: Topography
hierarchical_section_title: Darlaston / Topography
caption_attribution_description: English: River Tame flows peacefully The picture gives a false impression. This is a post industrial landscape: the land that the river flows through is riddled with old mine shafts some left uncapped. The busy M6 motorway passes over to the right of the picture.
context_page_description: Darlaston is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands of England. It is located near Wednesbury and Willenhall.
context_section_description: Darlaston is situated between Wednesbury and Walsall in the valley of the River Tame in the angle where the three major head-streams of the river converge. It is located on the South Staffordshire Coalfield and has been an area of intense coal-mining activity. The underlying coal reserves were most likely deposited in the Carboniferous Period.
  Disused coal mines are found near Queen Street in Moxley, behind Pinfold street JMI School, near Hewitt Street and Wolverhampton Street, in George Rose Park and behind the police station in Victoria Park.
  Mining subsidence, which has taken its toll on many buildings across central England, has also made its mark in Darlaston. In 1999, a council house on the New Moxley housing estate collapsed down a disused mineshaft, it's occupant, an elderly gentleman had complained of creaking and groaning in the house to neighbors who alerted the authorities who intern instructed him to leave, a few hours later it collapsed down the mine. The adjoining house also had to be knocked down.
caption: River Tarne, Darlaston
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