Rowley Regis is a town and historic church in addition to a previous local district, in the Birmingham region of the West Midlands, England. Thought about among the six 'towns' that make up the contemporary Sandwell Metropolitan District, it incorporates the wards of Blackheath, Cradley Heath as well as Old Hill, as well as Rowley Town. At the 2011 census, the consolidated population of Rowley Regis was 50,257. Originally in Staffordshire, the Rowley Regis Urban Area was formed in 1894 to cover the towns of Rowley, Blackheath, Cradley Heath, and Old Hill. The city district was included right into a municipal borough in 1933. Complying with the purchase of district standing, plans were revealed to build new council workplaces in the borough to change the existing workplaces in Lawrence Lane, Old Hill. A site on the edge of Halesowen Road and also Barrs Road was picked, with working starting in October 1937, and also the building being completed in December 1938. The city government framework within North Worcestershire and South Staffordshire-- Prior to the West Midlands Order 1965 reorganisation. In 1966, the borough of Rowley Regis merged with the districts of Oldbury and Smethwick to create the Warley County Borough, as well as entered into Worcestershire. There had actually previously been strategies to incorporate Rowley Regis right into an increased Dudley borough, as well as for Halesowen to join up with Oldbury as well as Smethwick rather. Eight years later on, in 1974, on the formation of the West Midlands Metropolitan region, Warley merged with West Bromwich to create the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough. It is now right in the core of the West Midlands conurbation.