... is home to the George Eliot Hospital and the George Eliot School?
... was capital of the Kingdom of Mercia during the reign of King Offa?
... had its own local currency in medieval times?
... has hosted an annual Shrove Tuesday Ball Game since 1199?
... is mentioned in Robin Gibb's 1970 song 'Cold Be My Days'?
... is dominated politically by a local Residents Association, rather than traditional political parties?
... has a football team nicknamed the Saddlers?
... is the second largest city in the UK?
... is famous for its beer breweries and Branston Pickles?
... is represented in Westminster by MPs Tom Watson and Adrian Bailey?
... now has two cathedrals because one was destroyed during the Second World War?
... is film director Shane Meadows from?
... is Charles Darwin from?
... has many Welsh-language street and place names and is called Croesoswallt in Welsh?
... is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell?
... is home to the West Midland's most expensive street (2011)?
... is the county town of the region's only Fairtrade County?
... is home to a large castle operated by amusement parks company Merlin Entertainments?
... has the only medieval cathedral in England with three spires?
... is home to the largest timber-framed townhouse in England?
... is the only town in the West Midlands ceremonial county with a London 2012 gold post box?
... is home to a large stainless steel statue of a miner?
... is home to the smallest park in the UK?
... is the birthplace of R. J. Mitchell, designer of the Spitfire fighter aircraft?
... is the birthplace of footballer Stan Collymore?
... is the closest town to Alton Towers theme park?
... is home to the Black Country Living Museum?
... has areas including Ocker Hill, Great Bridge and Tibbington?
... is named after Anglo-Saxon noblewoman Lady Wulfrun?
... is the home of IKEA's 'Birmingham' store?
... was visited by Malcolm X just 9 days before his assassination?
... is an affluent town which became a Birmingham suburb in 1974 after both were transferred from Warwickshire to the newly created West Midlands?
... is famous for lock and key manufacture and is now divided between Walsall and Wolverhampton boroughs?
... is home to the Merry Hill Shopping Centre?
... is home to Beacon Hill, one of the highest points in the region?
... is called Llanllieni in Welsh?
... has been described as the birthplace of the British tourist industry?
... was home to the Big Chill festival?
... did poet Philip Larkin describe as a 'hole of toad's turds'?
... is supposedly haunted by a ghost called Madam Pigott?
... has a Müller yoghurt factory?
... is the oldest continuously inhabited town in Shropshire?
... is split between High Town and Low Town?
... has alternated over the centuries between being called Idsall and its current name?
... has its own sweet pea society?
... is the home of Brittania, the former building society now run by the Co-Operative Bank?
... is the furthest west of Warwickshire's towns (current boundaries)?
... can also be pronounced Kozel?
... is known for its 'Chinese-gothic' Pump Rooms?
... is home to the White Lion Hotel, a 16th century coaching inn mentioned in 'Tom Jones' by Henry Fielding?
... is the largest settlement in the West Worcestershire parliamentary constituency?
... is famous for its natural brine water, which rivals the Dead Sea for salt content?
... is the closest town to West Midlands Safari Park?
... has a football team called _____ Harriers?
... has a Metropolitan Borough named after it, which is sandwiched between Birmingham and Coventry boroughs?
... was Kevin Rowland, of Dexy's Midnight Runners, born in?
... is home to a number of ancient burial mounds and tombs of knights from the Crusades?
... is located one mile south of Drake Hall women's prison?
... is a city that started as a federation of 6 towns and is still polycentric?
... has more Michelin-starred restaurants of anywhere in England outside London?
... did British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin die in?
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