Chapel Ash is a small area in Wolverhampton surrounded by the City Centre, Whitmore Reans & Merridale.

The area is most noted for being the home of Marston's, where the Park Brewery produces the well-known Banks's range of ales Owing to its prominent position on the London to Holyhead road, Chapel Ash has always been an important thoroughfare, though it didn't reach its current stage of urbanisation until the 1870s.

In 1823, Darlington Street had been constructed, linking Wolverhampton's 'High Green' (now Queen Square) to the westward route out of the town – still rural at this time.

Chapel Ash has a variety of different businesses based in the area, including a Harley-Davidson dealership and an independent motorcycle sales and service outlet, a tattoo parlour (Tattoo Palace), an Italian restaurant (Bella), art shop, recruitment agency, Dixon's Paints, estate agencies and bathroom furnishings.

Chapel Ash has been regularly criticised for the poor condition of many of the commercial properties, with features in the local press highlighting several aspects of the area,[3] though the area has benefitted from recent refurbishment of some properties, construction of the new £2.25 million Lifespring church on Clifton Street,[4] and development of a new £65 million Sainsburys store on Raglan Street.