The Lunt

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The Lunt is a residential area of Bilston within the city of Wolverhampton and is part of the West Midlands conurbation in England.

It was mostly laid out by the local council during the 1930s, with houses being built to rehouse people from town centre slums. These houses featured electricity, running water, indoor toilets and bathrooms - things that were previously unknown to virtually all of their inhabitants. There were also a few private houses built in the area.

The Lunt soon became known as a "sink" housing estate, and in the 1990s a street of houses on the east of the estate were demolished and replaced by a larger mix of private and rented homes. Further demolition was planned a decade later, with a greater number of homes earmarked for demolition, but these plans were scrapped in 2007 and the homes will be renovated instead.

It stands in the shadow of the A463 Black Country Route between Dudley and Walsall, which was completed in 1995.