Rowley Regis is a community and also historic church along with a former municipal borough, in the Birmingham region of the West Midlands, England. Taken into consideration among the six 'towns' that comprise the modern Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, it encompasses the wards of Blackheath, Cradley Heath as well as Old Hill, and Rowley Village. At the 2011 census, the consolidated population of Rowley Regis was 50,257. Originally in Staffordshire, the Rowley Regis Urban District was formed in 1894 to cover the villages of Rowley, Blackheath, Cradley Heath, and Old Hill. The metropolitan district was integrated right into a community borough in 1933. Complying with the procurement of district standing, plans were unveiled to develop new council workplaces in the district to change the existing offices in Lawrence Lane, Old Hill. A site on the corner of Halesowen Road as well as Barrs Road was chosen, with working beginning in October 1937, and the structure being completed in December 1938. The city government structure within North Worcestershire and South Staffordshire-- Before the West Midlands Order 1965 reorganisation. In 1966, the district of Rowley Regis combined with the boroughs of Oldbury as well as Smethwick to form the Warley County Borough, and also became part of Worcestershire. There had actually formerly been plans to integrate Rowley Regis right into an expanded Dudley borough, and for Halesowen to join up with Oldbury and also Smethwick instead. Eight years later on, in 1974, on the formation of the West Midlands Metropolitan county, Warley merged with West Bromwich to form the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough. It is now best in the core of the West Midlands city.