Dartmouth Park is a public park in West Bromwich, in West Midlands, England, about 0.5 miles east of the town centre and west of Sandwell Valley Country Park. The park was opened in 1878. It is owned
The drinking fountain
William Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth
The bandstand in 2017
William Walter Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth, styled Viscount Lewisham until 1853, was a British peer and Conservative politician.
Dartmouth Park, West Bromwich
…II in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens. Its area is 23.9 hectares (59 acres). Reuben Farley, an alderman of West Bromwich, wrote to William Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth in 1876, proposing the leasing of land from the Dartmouth estate to create a public park in West Bromwich. After further correspondence and meetings…
Dartmouth, 1860s–1870s