Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton  is a ceety an metropolitan borough in the Wast Midlands, Ingland. For Eurostat purposes Walsall an Wolverhampton is a NUTS 3 region (code UKG35) an is ane o five boroughs or unitary destricts that comprise the "Wast Midlands" NUTS 2 region. In 2004, the local govrenment destrict haed an estimatit population o 239,100; the wider Urban Aurie haed a population o 251,462, which maks it the 13t maist populous ceety in Ingland.

Historically a pairt o Staffordshire, an formin pairt o the metropolitan coonty o the Wast Midlands frae 1974, the ceety is commonly recognised as being named efter Lady Wulfrun, who foondit the toun in 985: its name comin frae Anglo-Saxon Wulfrūnehēantūn = "Wulfrūn's heich or principal enclosur or ferm". Alternatively, the ceety mey hae earned its oreeginal name frae Wulfereēantūn = "Wulfhere's heich or principal enclosur or ferm" efter the Mercie King. Nivertheless, the name Wulfrun is commonly uised in the ceety – for example, for the Wulfrun Centre or for Wulfrun Hall .

Sister ceeties
  Subotica, Serbie
  Klagenfurt, Austrick
  Venice, Italy
  Jalandhar, Indie
  Buffalo, New York, Unitit States

References

Freemit airtins

 Wolverhampton Civic and Historical Society
 BBC Black Country
 Wolverhampton City Council


Category:985 establishments
Category:Populatit places established in the 10t century
Category:Ceeties in the Wast Midlands (region)
Category:Metropolitan burghs
Category:Wast Midlands (coonty)
Category:Staffordshire
Category:Local govrenment destricts o the Wast Midlands (region)
Category:NUTS 3 statistical regions o the Unitit Kinrick