Accommodation Near Oldbury

Staying near Oldbury

Oldbury is a market town in Sandwell and the administrative centre of the borough. The M5 runs through the town, with access from junction 2. Sandwell & Dudley station on the Stour Valley line has served it since 1984.

The name comes from the Old English Ealdenbyrig, an old fortified town. By the late 1820s there were blast furnaces and steel works here, chemical works still operate at Rood End and Langley Green and the first branch of Lloyds Bank opened in Oldbury in 1864.

Oldbury had 13,606 residents at the 2011 census. In October 1980 Sainsbury's opened one of its first SavaCentre hypermarkets in the town centre.

Oldbury is one of the six towns that formed the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell on 1 April 1974. The borough's attractions include the Sandwell Aquatics Centre and Sandwell Valley Country Park.

Dudley town centre is about 4 miles by road from the house and Wolverhampton city centre is about 10 miles away.

Sandwell & Dudley station first opened as Oldbury in 1852 and sits on the Birmingham Loop of the West Coast Main Line. Avanti West Coast runs an hourly train to London Euston via Birmingham New Street and West Midlands Railway runs two trains an hour to Wolverhampton.

Transport for Wales also calls at Sandwell & Dudley.

Oldbury is about 6 miles by road from the house, The Merry Hill Lounge in Brierley Hill, which has four bedrooms, 500 Mbps Wi-Fi and free off-road parking.

Place facts from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldbury,_West_Midlands · en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwell · en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwell_%26_Dudley_railway_station. Road distances measured on OpenStreetMap, 6 October 2026.