Coordinates: 52°36′N 2°04′W / 52.60°N 2.06°W / 52.60; -02.06

Ashmore Park
Ashmore Park  Ashmore Park shown within the West Midlands
Population	6,734
OS grid reference	SJ9601
Metropolitan borough	Wolverhampton
Metropolitan county	West Midlands
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Wednesfield
Postcode district	WV
Dialling code	01902
Police	West Midlands
Fire	West Midlands
Ambulance	West Midlands
EU Parliament	West Midlands
List of places: UK • England • West Midlands

Ashmore Park is a small housing estate just outside of Wednesfield, in England. It is now in the city of Wolverhampton, West Midlands and was located within the historic county boundaries of Staffordshire. It forms most of the Wednesfield North ward of Wolverhampton City Council.

Contents 1 Places of interest 2 History 3 Demographics 4 Transport 5 Education 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Places of interest

At the heart of the estate is a large green park from which the area takes it name, comprising of a newly built children’s play area and multiple sports facilities which include a skate park, all weather multi sports pitch BMX track and bowls green. The park is also home to the Wednesfield Aces speedway team.

There are two main shopping areas, known locally as the 'top shops' and the 'bottom shops' which house a mix of local and independent businesses. The 'bottom shops' has undergone an extensive facelift and includes work to preserve the historic moat site.

On bottom end of Griffiths Drive (the main road around the estate) there is a community centre, a youth club and the newly built “The Parks” Children,s Centre. The Ashmore Park Community Centre and Ashmore Park Youth Club have both recently been renovated improving both accessibility and security for the general users.

The estate is served by two Banks's pubs: "The Ashmore" and "The True Briton". There is also a Fish And Chips shop at the 'bottom shops' opposite The Ashmore pub.

The Ashmore pub have A successful Football club in 1982, the boys from Ashmore Park Youth Club came of age and moved across the road to the Ashmore pub and started a football team.

There was some controversy in this year as the team played in sky blue with white stripes and dark navy shorts, yes, it was the Argentina Kit! On the outbreak of the Falkland’s conflict, the club received at lot of complaints and changed.

 The team of 2009 wear the original colours, but not in the same format.The then manager, Colin Cooke, was an instant success winning a Cup and the league championship. 

 Other managers have also had success, Padda Brewster got the team promoted in the mid to late 80’s, then managers like Brian Blower, Dave Evans, Mark O’Sullivan, Gary Walters, and Mark Williams all made their own impact on the club by winning Honours. 

 Then Padda Brewster again won 3 championships and went on to take the team into two cup finals in 4 season’s.2005-2009 

 The club to his day still have a close connection with the youth club as the Ashmore use the dressing rooms and sports hall and play all their home game on Ashmore park.The Ex Ashmore football players are known as Ashmoreonians locally. 

[edit] History

Ashmore Park was originally one of the wooded estates which Lady Wulfruna gave over to St. Peter's Fold in order for it to generate income and food for itself. A moat surrounded farmhouse was built here, sometime in the mid-1300s. Three-quarters of the moat still exists today, at the 'bottom shops'.

The housing estate was originally built as an overspill estate for Wolverhampton, but was built within Wednesfield Urban District. The estate consists predominantly of 1950s council houses, flats and bungalows. It was the biggest council estate in England at the time of being built.^{[citation needed]}

The estate was visited by Clive Anthony Lambden for one week during July 1989. It was during his years at North Staffordshire Polytechnic.

The home stead is viewed as being used by the Dean of Wolverhampton in his role as Dean of Ashmore Park (basically landlord). Generally the house was probably used as a farm and hostel for visitors and/ or workers utilized on the land and in the woods. Such things were common medieval uses for outlying city/ town estates. However, there is little to no actual evidence of such use here. The old farmhouse was probably taken down when a new one was built in the early 19th century; that new one was demolished in 1957 and a library was built near its site.

[edit] Demographics

The latest census to take place in the neighbourhood was in 2001, where it was recorded as having a population of 6,734. 25-44 year olds represented the highest proportion of the estate's population at 27.6% with 60-74 year olds being the second highest at 24.3%. The neighbourhood is not an ethnically diverse area with 97.2% of the population being classed as White. Black Caribbean is the largest ethnic minority group in the neighbourhood, representing 0.9%. Christianity is the predominant religion in the area with 81.6% of the population stating that they were Christians. 9.4% said that they did not have a religion.^[1]

There was a total of 2,968 households in the neighbourhood, of which 54.5% are owner occupied and 39.4% are council houses. 0.4% of the population live in communal establishments, 84% of which suffer from a long term illness. Of all the households, only 11.1% are considered to not be deprived at all and 7.2% are considered to be overcrowded.^[1]

Ashmore Park had an unemployment rate of 7.1%, above the Wolverhampton average of 5.3%. Of the economically inactive, 24.4% are retired.^[1]

[edit] Transport

The 559 bus provides regular access to the estate from Wolverhampton, with services roughly every six minutes Monday-Saturday.

[edit] Education

The estate is served by Coppice Performing Arts School, a secondary school.

[edit] References

http://www.west-midlands.police.uk/wolverhamptoneast/ashmore-park.asp

[edit] External links

• WV11.co.uk - A local community news and events resource

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