Ocker Hill

Ocker Hill is a residential area straddling the border of Tipton and Wednesbury in the West Midlands of England.

[1] Ocker Hill railway station opened in 1864, serving the short Princes End branch line, between the Bloomfield area of Tipton and the township of Wednesbury.

The trackbed between Ocker Hill and Princes End was converted into a pedestrian walkway in 1988, in works which saw a tunnel infilled and a railway overbridge demolished.

The final stub of the line, connecting Wednesbury to Ocker Hill Power Station, remained open until February 1991.

After the demolition of the nearby cooling towers, Bolton Court became been Ocker Hill's most recognisable and distinctive landmark.

Moat Farm, situated to the west of Ocker Hill in the direction of Princes End, was built in the 17th century and stood for some 250 years until it was finally demolished to make way for the new Moat Farm council estate (nicknamed the "Lost City" as it was hemmed in by a railway, canal and acres of derelict land when first built) which was the birthplace of the former Wolverhampton Wanderers and England footballer Steve Bull in 1965.