Cradley Heath
Cradley Heath is a small town and also ward in the Rowley Regis location of the district of Sandwell, West Midlands, England. It exists within the Black Country, regarding 2 1/2 miles (4.0 kilometres) south of Dudley and also 8 miles (13 kilometres) west of central Birmingham. Cradley Heath is commonly confused with adjoining Cradley in Halesowen, although the two places have long remained in different local authorities, as well as until 1966 were in different counties. Cradley Heath is among numerous communities in central England still recognisable from their very early 20th-century look. Much of the stores and homes in the High Street are still standing after 100 years, though some were destroyed in the mid-2000s to give way for a bypass, to relieve congestion in the community centre.
