Tettenhall

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Tettenhall is a historic part of the city of Wolverhampton, England.

Tettenhall has a High Street and a shopping arcade, which overlooks a village green more famous for its paddling pool than anything else. The A41 runs through the village green as a single carriageway road. Tettenhall was previously an Urban District in its own right, until most areas become part of the Borough of Wolverhampton in 1966, with some areas of the District being placed within the present South Staffordshire district. Tettenhall retains its rural village character.

There are two wards of Wolverhampton City Council which cover Tettenhall: Tettenhall Regis (the northern part) and Tettenhall Wightwick (the southern part).

[edit] Education

Tettenhall has its own public school "Tettenhall College" which is based in "Tettenhall Towers" the former home of the Thorneycroft family. The Thorneycrofts were famous Conservatives, in the 1860s Benjamin Disraeli made a personal plea for Colonel Thorneycroft to become an MP, he preferred his garden at Tettenhall Towers. Colonel Thorneycroft's descendant Peter Thorneycroft was a Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1950s. Colonel Thorneycroft bought and sold property on a grand scale but preferred Tettenhall Towers to the rest. Colonel Thorneycroft was also an eccentric of the highest order, he was known for pushing his butlers off the top of the towers to test various flying machines of his own creation. Also Christ Church Infants and Juniors are prominent schools in the area, linked to the church of the same name, situated in Tettenhall Wood.

[edit] History

The Battle of Tettenhall in 910 was the turning point in the battle against the Viking invaders by the combined armies of Aethelred of Mercia and Edward the Elder of Wessex. It saw the crushing defeat of the last of the large Viking armies to ravage England.