Coseley Urban District was a local government district in Staffordshire which was created in 1894.
It was made up of the villages of Brierley (now Bradley), Ettingshall and Coseley, which had previously been part of the ancient manor of Sedgley - the western section of which formed Sedgley Urban District.
The urban district council was based at a building in the town centre.
Coseley urban district ceased to exist in 1966 when, under recommendations of the Local Government Commission for England, it was divided between the County Boroughs of Dudley, Wolverhampton and West Bromwich in the newly-created West Midlands metropolitan county. Most of the historic Ettingshall village was placed in Wolverhampton, while Brierley was roughly half split between Wolverhampton and West Bromwich, and the main Coseley area became part of Dudley.
The former Coseley Urban District Council offices became redundant with the abolition of the local authority, and were demolished soon afterwards.
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