 The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election.The seat was named after a town in the historic county of Staffordshire in the West Midlands of England.It consisted of four local government areas, the Urban Districts of Amblecote, Brierley Hill, and Tettenhall as well as the Rural District of Seisdon, as they existed in 1948.