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Bridle Path, Dresden,
Longton
Villers Street
Named after Charles Pelham Villiers the
House of Commons' longest serving Member of Parliament (MP).
The end of Villiers Street - it ends
abruptly with a wall
across the road because the wall marks the boundary
of the Dresden Estate - the house beyond the wall is
in the estate of the Duke of Sutherland.
When some of the houses were
demolished in Villiers Street in the 1970's a small housing estate was
created with the consequence that only a small portion of Villers
Street survived at the end by Trentham Road.
The other end became Beadnell Grove. the line of the bridle path was
maintained by a pavement.
The Bridle Path, Villiers Street in 2001
The path runs right through the Dresden estate acting as a short cut to
the park.
Charles Pelham Villiers - In
1832, he was a Poor Law Commissioner. He served as a Liberal MP for
Wolverhampton from 1835 to 1885 and for Wolverhampton South from 1885
until 1898 (switching to the Liberal Unionist party in 1886).
During his time in
Parliament he worked towards free trade and opposed the Corn Laws and home
rule for Ireland. He is noted as being the voice in parliament of the free
trade movement before the election of Richard Cobden and John Bright.
The line of the bridle path as it
crosses where Villiers Street was originally and into Russell Street.
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