Brierley Hill Urban District

Brierley Hill Urban District was an Urban District in Staffordshire, England, comprising the areas of Brierley Hill, Kingswinford, Quarry Bank, and Pensnett, now within the modern-day Dudley Metropolitan Borough in the West Midlands county.

Brierley Hill District of Brierley Hill
Urban District
Former Brierley Hill Civic Centre, now Brierley Hill Police Station
Area
• 1911	1,016 acres (4 km2)[1]
• 1961	5,851 acres (24 km2)[2]
Area transferred
• 1934	4,246 acres (17 km2)[3] from Kingswinford Rural District
• 1934	666 acres (3 km2)[3] from Quarry Bank Urban District
Population
• 1911	12,263[4]
• 1961	56,075[4]
History
• Preceded by	Sanitary district
• Origin	Local Government Act 1894
• Created	1894
• Abolished	1966
• Succeeded by	County Borough of Dudley Metropolitan Borough of Dudley
Status	Urban District
Government	Brierley Hill District Council
• Type	Urban District Council
• HQ	Civic Centre, Brierley Hill
• Motto	Sine labore nihil floret  (Latin) "Without labour nothing prospers"
Arms of Brierley Hill District Council
Contained within
• County	Staffordshire

Brierley Hill became an urban district in 1894 under the Local Government Act. Previously, it had been an urban sanitary authority within the parish of Kingswinford. It was greatly expanded in 1934, when it took in the Quarry Bank and Kingswinford districts. It remained an independent urban district until 1966, when it was merged into the Dudley County Borough^[3] under the advice of the Local Government Commission for England.