For the tool used to pluck guitar strings, see plec

Plectrum

A plectrum is a small flat tool used to pluck or strum a stringed instrument. For hand-held instruments such as guitars and mandolins, the plectrum is often called a pick, and is a separate tool held in the player's hand...

Pleck in the borough of Walsall

Walsall

Walsall is a large industrial town in the West Midlands of England. It is located northwest of Birmingham and east of Wolverhampton. Historically a part of Staffordshire, Walsall is a component area of the West Midlands conurbation and part of the Black Country.Walsall is the administrative...

 neighbours Palfrey and stretches from the bridge on Wednesbury Road to Junction 9 of the M6 motorway

M6 motorway

The M6 motorway runs from junction 19 of the M1 at the Catthorpe Interchange, near Rugby via Birmingham then heads north, passing Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester, Preston, Carlisle and terminating at the Gretna junction . Here, just short of the Scottish border it becomes the A74 which continues to...

. It consists of a large green space called Pleck Park and housing estates.

Poet Laureate 1843-50 William Wordsworth visited Pleck in 1847. As a student he studied the Japanese style of poetry and wrote a haiku style verse about Pleck, on the site of where the Belle Vue pub now stands on Moat Road, Alumwell, Walsall.

The Walsall-Wolverhampton Line runs alongside Pleck Park, and once included Pleck railway station

Pleck railway station

Pleck railway station was a station built on the London and North Western Railway in 1881, on the connecting line between the Grand Junction Railway and the South Staffordshire Line. It served the Pleck area of Walsall, and was located just off Bescot Road, between the Slaney Road and Slaters Lane...

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