Dudley (West Midlands)

Dudley is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the English County of West Midlands.

With 194.919 inhabitants in the census of 2001 it should not "city" are called, but it is the second "town" of the country, after Reading.

Dudley Castle, May 2006.The town was developed around the fortress of Dudley Castle, of which the ruins still in the City-State. The castle is mentioned in theDomesday Book of 1086 and is 11th-century. According to tradition there was first a wooden fort, built around the year 700 by aSaxon nobleman, Lord Dud or Dado. [1]  In 1440 acquired the occupant, John Sutton of Dudley, the dignity of baron. "The Duddeley militi Johanni de Sutton" became the first Baron Dudley. The construction work was extensively renovated around 1530 by his descendant John Dudley to the latest insights of the Renaissance. At the time of the English civil war it was a stronghold of the royalists. The besieged surrendered in 1646. In 1750, burned the Castle. The prop up share. tribes mainly from the 12th and 13th centuries. Since 1937 is located within the Dudley Zoo.

The Dudley Market is a large shopping centre. The market was founded in 1260, but the pavement was even 12th-century. These cobblestones were replaced in the 1980s . ==Born[ Edit] ==
 * Duncan Edwards (1 October 1936), football player
 * Sam Allardyce (born 19 October 1954), football player and trainer
 * Jason Bonham (15 July 1966), drummer