Rowley Regis is a town as well as historical church along with a former municipal district, in the Birmingham area of the West Midlands, England. Thought about one of the six 'communities' that consist of the contemporary Sandwell Metropolitan District, it incorporates the wards of Blackheath, Cradley Heath and also Old Hill, as well as Rowley Village. At the 2011 census, the mixed population of Rowley Regis was 50,257. Originally in Staffordshire, the Rowley Regis Urban District was created in 1894 to cover the villages of Rowley, Blackheath, Cradley Heath, and also Old Hill. The metropolitan district was incorporated into a municipal borough in 1933. Following the procurement of district status, strategies were unveiled to build new council offices in the borough to change the existing workplaces in Lawrence Lane, Old Hill. A site on the edge of Halesowen Road as well as Barrs Road was selected, with functioning starting in October 1937, and the structure being finished in December 1938. The city government framework within North Worcestershire and South Staffordshire-- Before the West Midlands Order 1965 reorganisation. In 1966, the district of Rowley Regis merged with the districts of Oldbury as well as Smethwick to develop the Warley County Borough, and also entered into Worcestershire. There had actually formerly been strategies to integrate Rowley Regis right into an expanded Dudley district, as well as for Halesowen to associate Oldbury and also Smethwick rather. Eight years later, in 1974, on the formation of the West Midlands Metropolitan region, Warley combined with West Bromwich to develop the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough. It is currently best in the core of the West Midlands urban sprawl.