Few places can offer such a wealth of history as Dudley - from the Mediaeval town centres right back to the Borough's internationally-recognised geological heritage. The 425 million year-old Dudley Bug is a unique trilobite fossil found only in the Wren's Nest area, and is so associated with Dudley that it is incorporated into the town's coat of arms.
Evidence of pre-industrial settlement abounds, but nowhere is the area's heritage more vividly brought to life than at the open-air Black Country Living Museum, with painstakingly rebuilt houses, shops, public buildings and factories from the area along with a restored 1850's coal mine that gives a real insight into the working conditions of the day.
