Wolverhampton

By train

• Wolverhampton railway stationWolverhampton station is on the West Coast Mainline, so has frequent and regular services to London Euston, the North West, Scotland, the South West and Wales.
  Services to Birmingham New Street Station, one of the UK's largest rail interchanges, operate approximately every ten minutes.
  Renovation works on the station are scheduled to be completed by mid 2020.

By bus and tram

Bus services originate from the city's bus station, near the railway station. There are regular and frequent services to all parts of the city, although many services stop at around 11PM. Buses from Wolverhampton also travel to the towns of the Black Country (including Dudley, Sandwell, West Bromwich and Walsall) and to Birmingham, although the journey by road can be quite long.
GorillaBus operate low cost intercity services to Liverpool, Stoke, East Midlands Airport, Nottingham and Yorkshire from Faulkland Crescent Coach Station.
The

West Midlands Metro

provides very regular and frequent trams that start at

Wolverhampton St George's tram stop

in Bilston Street (very close to the city's main shopping area on Dudley Street) and pass via Bilston, Wednesbury, West Bromwich and Sandwell. They terminate new Stret Birmingham's New Street Station. There are plans to extend the Midland Metro network to Edgbaston and throughout the Black Country.
You can save a lot of money by buying day tickets, if you intend to do a lot of travelling in one day. Network West Midlands provides a guide to help find the best value ticket.

By plane

Wolverhampton Airport is small. Most scheduled flights arrive at (BHX), which can be reached in 30 minutes by direct train.

The suburbs of Wolverhampton are easily accessible by an excellent network of buses and, south of the city centre, by Midland Metro trams.

• Wolverhampton Art Gallery

  address: Lichfield Street
  Home to one of the best collections of Pop Art in the UK, including works by Andy Warhol.

• West ParkA fine example of a Victorian park close to the city centre, with a refurbished bandstand, conservatory and lake. Green Flag/Green Heritage Status.

• Moseley Old Hall

  phone: +44 1902 782808
  address: Moseley Old Hall Lane, Fordhouses, WV10 7HY
  An atmospheric 17th-century farmhouse that is most famous for its association with King Charles II, who sought refuge there from Cromwell's troops after he fled the Battle of Worcester in 1651. Managed by the National Trust.

• Wightwick Manor and Gardens

  phone: +44 1902 761400
  address: Wightwick Bank, WV6 8EE
  The 19th-century home of the Mander family and full of the works of William Morris and Pre-Raphaelite associates.

• St Peter's Collegiate Church

  phone: +44 1902 422642
  address: Lich Gates, WV1 1TY
  A 14th-century church and gardens in Cheapside - Green Heritage status.

• Black Country Living Museum

  phone: +44 121 557-9643
  address: Tipton Road, Dudley DY1 4SQ
  Showing life in Industrial Revolution Britain. See entry under Dudley.

• Boscobel House and The Royal Oak

  phone: +44 1902 850244
  address: Brewood, Bishop's Wood, ST19 9AR
  A timber-framed house, most famous for the 'Royal Oak' where King Charles II hid to evade capture after his defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651. Managed by English Heritage.

• Watch football (ie socccer) at

  Wolverhampton Wanderers

  address: Molineux Stadium, Waterloo Rd, WV1 4QR
  Wolves play in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The stadium, capacity 31,000, is half a mile north of town centre, just beyond the ring road.
• Go to the races at

  Wolverhampton Racecourse

  phone: +44 1902 390000
  address: Dunstall Park WV6 0PE
  This is the UK's first all-weather floodlit horse racetrack, so it has flat-racing year round, mostly in the evening, often mid-week. It's an artificial "Tapeta" surface; they don't have jumps races here. The course is in the throes of expanding its hotel, creating a casino, and tarmacking the overspill car park, so it'll be a tad messy while all this construction is under way.

• Grand Theatre

  address: Lichfield St, WV1 1DE

• Civic Hall

  address: North St, WV1 1RD
  See a concert at Civic Hall. Recent bands over the past few years have included Radiohead, The Killers, Blur and Travis

• The South Staffordshire Golf Club

  phone: +44 1902 751065
  address: Danescourt Rd, Tettenhall, WV6 9BQ
  Play golf at one of Wolverhampton's various courses, including the South Staffs course where former Ryder Cup winner Peter Baker is one of the course pros.

While Wolverhampton's shopping facilities are more limited than the Bull Ring in nearby Birmingham and the enormous Merry Hill Centre, the newly refurbished Wulfrun and Mander shopping centers are home to all of the usual high street chains and the enormous Beatties department store is unrivalled in the region.

• Wulfrun Shopping Centre

  phone: +44 1902 424536
  address: Cleveland St, WV1 3HH

• Mander Shopping Centre

  phone: +44 1902 711084
  address: Woolpack Alley, WV1 3NH

• House of Fraser

  phone: +44 1902 422311
  address: 71–78 Victoria St, WV1 3PQ

There is also delightful independent boutique The Sheila Cooke Foundation, where all the stock is made on the premises, or by equally lovely UK based companies. A must for anyone with an eye for detail and the unusual!

A visit to Wolverhampton wouldn't be complete without trying a curry from one of the many Indian restaurants located in and around the city center. Of particular note is the award-winning Bilash Tandoori on Cheapside.

• Bilash Tandoori

  phone: +44 1902 427762
  address: 2 Cheapside, WV1 1TU

Other well-known restaurants include Bella in Chapel Ash (Upmarket Italian cuisine) Memsahib in Compton (Indian cuisine) and The Ship in the town center (its the only place in West Midlands that does a beef chilly fry!) Other popular eateries just outside Wolverhampton include: The Red Cow at Ackleton (on the way to Bridgnorth), The Cowshed in Pattingham and the Thornescroft Restaurant (once again on the way to Bridgnorth).

In addition to a wide choice of bars and clubs, centred around Lichfield Street and Queen Street, its live music scene is unrivalled by many larger cities in the UK. The main music venues include the Civic Hall, Wulfrun Hall and Little Civic on North Street in the city centre, and the Robin 2 (near Bilston Central metro station)
For Real Ale, one might consider visiting one of Wolverhampton's CAMRA pubs such as the "Combermere Arms" on the Tettenhall Road in Chapel Ash, "The Newhampton" on Riches St off Newhampton Road in Whitmore Reans or "The Great Western" in Sun Street at the back of the railway station. "The Station" in Codsall (also a CAMRA pub) is known for its real ale; it is outside Wolverhampton.

• Best Western Connaught Hotel

  phone: +44 1902 424433
  address: 40-50 Tettenhall Road

• Britannia Hotel

  phone: +44 871 222 0091
  address: Lichfield Street
  reasonably priced hotel

• Holiday Inn

  address: Gorsebrook Rd, Dunstall Park Centre
  Part of the leisure complex at Wolverhampton's racecourse.

• Mercure Wolverhampton Goldthorn Hotel

  phone: +44 1902 429216
  address: Penn Road
  3-star hotel with free wi-fi, parking and Health Club with pool.

• Novotel City Centre

  phone: +44 1902 871100
  address: Union Street

• The Mount Hotel

  phone: +44 1902 752055
  address: Mount Road
  Luxury hotel in a leafy suburb approx 4 km from the city center

Wolverhampton is a few miles from the countryside of Shropshire. Nearby places to visit include Ironbridge Gorge, Weston Park and the market town of Bridgnorth.

• Birmingham
• Walsall