Tettenhall
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Tettenhall is a historic part of Wolverhampton. The Battle of Tettenhall Wood was the turning point in Alfred the Great's fight against the Viking invaders.
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 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 a 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.
Tettenhall has a High Street and an 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 previouly an Urban District in its own right, until becoming part of the Borough of Wolverhampton in 1966. Tettenhall retains its rural village character.