Wolverhampton, a town in Staffordshire, 12½ m. NW. of Birmingham, in the midst of coal and iron fields; the centre of a group of towns engaged in different kinds of iron manufacture, locks and keys the staple, and the metropolis of the Black Country.
Population (circa 1900) given as 82,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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