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- Bilston Urban District Council was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 covering the ancient parish of Bilston. The urban district was granted a royal charter in 1933, becoming a municipal borough and Alderman Herbert Beach its Mayor.
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In 1966 the Borough of Bilston was abolished, with most of its territory incorporated into the County Borough of Wolverhampton (see History of West Midlands), although parts of Bradley in the east of the town were merged into Walsall borough.
In the 18th century the town was already beginning to show some of the drawbacks of industrialisation, overcrowding and poor drainage and sanitation. In 1728 and 1729 an “epidemical distemper” of an unknown sort caused a great mortality, with 172 burials being recorded in just two years from a population of about 1,000.
Where is “Bilston”? For the purposes of this history Bilston is taken to be, roughly, the area of the old Bilston Borough Council up until 1966. It therefore includes Bradley which was a separate manor but seems always to have seen Bilston as its local centre.
Between 1933 and 1966 Bilston was an independent town with its own town council and mayor. but despite being absorbed into the enlarged borough of Wolverhampton, Bilston still retains much of its unique heritage and small industrial town feel.
History of Bilston - Part 1. Bilston is first mentioned in Anglo-Saxon times, in 944, when Wulfrun gave Bilston, along with other lands, to the monastery at Hampton which subsequently became known as Wulfrun's Hampton or Wolverhampton.
Bilston first appears in the written record at the end of the 10th century when, in 985 AD land was given by King Aethelred to Lady Wufrun; and when she, in turn, gave some of that land to found (or, possibly, re-found) a monastery at Wolverhampton. The land granted included “Bilsetnatum”.
In 1933 Bilston was incorporated as a Municipal Borough with Herbert Beach as the first Mayor. Municipal independence was retained until 1966 when in a general re-organization of local government in South Staffordshire.
