Rowley Regis is a town and also historic parish along with a previous metropolitan borough, in the Birmingham area of the West Midlands, England. Thought about among the six 'communities' that make up the modern-day Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, it includes the wards of Blackheath, Cradley Heath and also Old Hill, and also Rowley Village. At the 2011 census, the consolidated population of Rowley Regis was 50,257. Initially in Staffordshire, the Rowley Regis Urban Area was developed in 1894 to cover the towns of Rowley, Blackheath, Cradley Heath, as well as Old Hill. The metropolitan area was integrated into a metropolitan district in 1933. Complying with the purchase of borough status, strategies were revealed to construct new council offices in the district to replace 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 also the building being completed in December 1938. The local government structure within North Worcestershire and South Staffordshire-- Prior to the West Midlands Order 1965 reorganisation. In 1966, the district of Rowley Regis combined with the districts of Oldbury and Smethwick to form the Warley County Borough, and became part of Worcestershire. There had formerly been strategies to integrate Rowley Regis right into an increased Dudley borough, and also for Halesowen to join up with Oldbury and also Smethwick rather. Eight years later, in 1974, on the development of the West Midlands Metropolitan area, Warley combined with West Bromwich to form the Sandwell Metropolitan District. It is now right in the core of the West Midlands city.