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Milking Bank is a residential area of Dudley, West Midlands, England.
It is a modern development which began in about 1984 with the construction of new houses in an isolated area more than a mile to the west of Dudley town centre, near the border with Sedgley, which had been mined for coal since the 19th century. Further developments of private housing took place on this land between Himley Road and Dibdale Road and by the end of the 1980s there were several hundred houses in Milking Bank, as well as a primary school.
Further development took place after the demolition of nearby Burton Road Hospital in 1994, with the construction of further housing on the north side of Dibdale Road. At the end of the decade, further houses - as well as a Co-operative society supermarket - were built on the west of Milking Bank joining onto Grosvenor Road. This latest development was a mix of private homes as well as ones leased out by a housing association.
The estate is served by a public house, the Meadow Lark, as well as a doctor's surgery.
There was once a Spar minimarket that served the needs for quick trips to the shop for the estate, however this burnt down in 2011, arson being the suspected cause.
Categories:- Areas of Dudley
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