Rushall, West Midlands

Rushall is a historic village in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands county of England.

[2] The first record of Rushall occurs in Domesday Book (1086), where its total annual value to its lord was assessed as 10 shillings, from a village of eight households and a mill.

During the latter, a Mr Pitt of Wolverhampton attempted to bribe Captain Tuthill to betray the garrison of Rushall, but his treachery was discovered, and he suffered death for it in 1640.

[7] Rushall Hall today is mainly a 19th-century structure, incorporating walls from an earlier building.

At the time the massive surviving, fortified gatehouse and walls were built in the 13th and 14th centuries, the house itself was probably made of timber.

At the start of the Civil War in 1642, Sir Edward Leigh was an MP and an opponent of the King.

The use of limestone as a flux for smelting iron caused great expansion in mining during the Industrial Revolution.

A new settlement grew up at Daw End, and the Hay Head and Linley workings were both on a large scale.

The religious composition of both settlements was 71% Christian, 22.8% irreligious, 1.1% Muslim, 3% Sikh, 0.6% Hindu and 0.3% Buddhist.

It contains basic amenities but there is also a war memorial, there was a library until its closure in 2017 as part of a council budget cut,[10] there is a McDonald's on Daw End Lane,[11] there is also a small church called "Christ The King Church",[12] a Labour Club,[13] Travis Perkins factory and Community Centre.

It forms part of a residential area with the nearby villages and areas of Shelfield, Pelsall, Ryecroft, Walsall Wood, Blakenall Heath, Pool Green and Leamore which act as suburbs of nearby Walsall, Bloxwich, Aldridge and Brownhills.

[23] Rushall railway station was open from 1849 to 1909, on the former South Staffordshire Line between Walsall and Lichfield City.

Station Road, Rushall
The only property in the village with ornate chimney similar to ones in nearby Caldmore
Christ the King Church, Rushall
Rushall Main Shopping Centre
Rushall station site on the disused South Staffordshire Line (Now a greenway)