Rowley Regis is a town and also historic parish along with a previous local district, in the Birmingham area of the West Midlands, England. Thought about one of the six 'communities' that consist of the modern-day Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, it encompasses the wards of Blackheath, Cradley Heath as well as Old Hill, and also Rowley Town. At the 2011 census, the combined population of Rowley Regis was 50,257. Initially in Staffordshire, the Rowley Regis Urban District was developed in 1894 to cover the villages of Rowley, Blackheath, Cradley Heath, and Old Hill. The metropolitan area was integrated into a municipal borough in 1933. Adhering to the acquisition of district condition, strategies were revealed to develop new council workplaces in the borough to replace the existing workplaces in Lawrence Lane, Old Hill. A site on the edge of Halesowen Road and Barrs Road was picked, with functioning commencing in October 1937, and also the building being finished in December 1938. The local government structure within North Worcestershire and also South Staffordshire-- Prior to the West Midlands Order 1965 reorganisation. In 1966, the district of Rowley Regis merged with the districts of Oldbury and Smethwick to form the Warley County Borough, and also entered into Worcestershire. There had previously been plans to include Rowley Regis right into an expanded Dudley district, and also for Halesowen to associate Oldbury and also Smethwick rather. Eight years later, in 1974, on the formation of the West Midlands Metropolitan county, Warley combined with West Bromwich to form the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough. It is now best in the core of the West Midlands city.