Walsall
a town of Staffordshire, England; 8 miles N. N. W. of Birmingham. It is situated on a small affluent of the Tame and has numerous public buildings. The special manufactures are saddlers' ironmongery and all kinds of leather goods (saddles, harness etc.), the latter being largely exported.
Walsall lies on the margin of the southern Staffordshire mineral field, and produces a great variety of hardware, small castings, gas tubes, chandeliers, iron bedsteads, silver and brass plating, etc. Coal and lime are wrought in the vicinity. Pop. about 95,000. an