Sheep are legally allowed to make their way through a Black Country booking office, after a council failed to properly close a right of way, it is claimed.
Sheep are legally allowed to make their way through a Black Country booking office, after a council failed to properly close a right of way, it is claimed.
Historians said Wolverhampton City Council never formally applied to close the right of way through Wolverhampton's Woolpack Alley before it was bricked up to create the new Midland Box Office.
So according to old highway laws, the right to pass through Woolpack Alley, including the right to drive sheep, still stands.
The fact was revealed by Frank Sharman, who, along with the rest of the Wolverhampton History and Heritage Society, fought to save the alley from closure.
Read the full story in the Express & Star.
