These attractive countryside locations boast popular attractions - including an airport, a vineyard, and a zoo.
Pattingham
Pattingham is set in rolling south Staffordshire countryside which provides plenty of amenities for local people and visitors.
Patshull Park is an estate near to Pattingham designed by Capability Brown and includes a 75-acre ‘Great Lake’ which is well-stocked for anglers. There is an abundance of bream, tench, perch and pike in the lake which is open to the public for fishing from the bank or small boats all year round.
Rudge Riding offers a professionally-designed event course with 70 jumps, which has been a training ground professional and amateur equestrian eventers for many years.
Footpaths take walkers through Pattingham to the neighbouring villages of Chesterton, Burnhill Green and Ackleton.
Nearby Chesterton Golf Club is another popular amenity.
Pattingham itself boasts a parade of shops, two pubs, and a church - plus a lively village hall offering year-round entertainment and a meeting place for sports and social clubs.
Trysull
Trysull is accessible via country lanes and still retains many of its old country cottages, houses and a manor house.
The Mander family, a formidable industrial force in the area with its chemical and paint businesses, bought Trysull Manor and set about transforming it into a fine example of an arts and craft house.
Although in private ownership, it is clearly visible from the road and sits alongside Wolverhampton’s Wightwick Manor and The Mount as part of the family’s legacy to the region.
Trysull and parts of neighbouring Seisdon village have been designated conservation areas because of their untouched layout and buildings.
There is a beautiful view of Trysull Mill from the bridge over Smestow Brook on entry to the village.
Trysull has a village hall, village green, playing fields and a small industrial estate to the south east of the village which caters well to its needs.
Bobbington
Bobbington was the site of a busy airfield in World War II which continues to thrive privately as Halfpenny Green Airfield.
It is a popular venue for year-round events, weddings, flying lessons - or just watching the planes come and go from its viewing tower café.
A variety of successful businesses operate from the airfield, including a specialist Jaguar restorer, design company, outdoor adventure group and furniture manufacturer.
Bobbington is also home to the Halfpenny Green Wine Estate, which boasts 30 acres of vines.
The family-owned business produces a wide range of award-winning wines.
The craft village on site features 16 independent businesses, from a pottery workshop, to a jewellery vendor, a candle maker, a beauty salon and more.
Also based at Halfpenny Green Craft Village is the popular Wild Zoo, which aims to deliver a memorable, hands-on experience to educate guests about animals
From birds, to lizards, lemurs, binturongs, civets, meerkats, marmosets and more – there’s loads to see at this exciting family attraction.
Highgate Common fringes the parish and is a popular destination for walkers and wildlife-lovers.
It has been named a Special Site of Scientific Interest for its abundance of rare plants and animals, including a nationally important register of bees, wasps and ants. It is a diverse habitat comprising mainly of heathland, of which heather is the most dominant plant, and woodland with occasional ponds and bogs, over hilly and often rough ground.
Lower Penn
Lower Penn is a rural village nestled between Wolverhampton and Wombourne, offering a varied number of local walks.
Nearby Penn Common has always been a favourite place for Wolverhampton and Black Country folk to head for a walk or picnic and to visit one of its many pubs.