Mossley Estate, Walsall

The Mossley Estate is a housing estate located in Bloxwich, a town in the West Midlands of England. The vast majority of homes in the area are council properties built by the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall during the 1950s.

All the houses were originally council owned, but during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Walsall Council began to sell some of the houses off, a process which accelerated to the present day.

Mossley Infant and Junior and Abbey Primary School serve the estate's children, though after the age of 11, most used to go to the T P Riley School in Bloxwich. In the late 1970s Sneyd Comprehensive School opened and took a lot of its intake from Mossley Estate.

Two pubs were opened on the estate - The Eagle at the Broad Lane end, and the Leathern Bottle by the shopping centre in Cresswell Crescent. The Eagle also served as the terminus of the trolleybus route from Walsall and Bloxwich which served the estate from the mid-1950s onwards. Originally numbered 30, it was changed to 31 to avoid confusion with other Bloxwich routes. The estate is now served by the National Express West Midlands 301 bus route and Bloxwich North railway station is located on the northern edge of the estate.

Roads on Mossley Estate are named after towns in the UK which have abbeys of some kind. Abbey Square is the nominal centre of the estate, though the main shopping centre is on Cresswell Crescent (named after a Walsall mayor). Road names include, Glastonbury Crescent, Tintern Crescent, Neath Way, Netley Road, etc.

There is one church on the Estate, St Thomas Church of England. Originally opened as a daughter church to All Saints Bloxwich,all residents paid a contribution towards a brick to build the church it gained District status in the 1980s or 1990s.

The estate itself is built on the site of a smallpox isolation hospital, the entrance lodge of which remained at the junction of Cresswell Crescent and Sneyd Lane until the early 1960s when a set of 3 storey flats was built (still extant today)

Crime rates in Mossley are relatively high

Famous former inhabitants include politician David Howarth, (once of Glastonbury Crescent) now MP for Cambridge and Chris Rolinson, (also once of Glastonbury Crescent) a composer of modern hymns and religious songs, who worked with Sheila Walsh and Graham Kendrick.

Coordinates: 52°37′19″N 2°01′19″W / 52.622°N 2.022°W / 52.622; -2.022