Rowley Regis
Rowley Regis is a town and historical parish in addition to a former local borough, in the Birmingham area of the West Midlands, England. Considered among the 6 'towns' that comprise the modern Sandwell Metropolitan District, it incorporates the wards of Blackheath, Cradley Heath and Old Hill, and Rowley Village. At the 2011 census, the mixed population of Rowley Regis was 50,257. Initially in Staffordshire, the Rowley Regis Urban Area was developed in 1894 to cover the villages of Rowley, Blackheath, Cradley Heath, and also Old Hill. The metropolitan district was incorporated into a metropolitan district in 1933. Following the acquisition of borough standing, strategies were unveiled to construct new council offices in the district to change the existing workplaces in Lawrence Lane, Old Hill. A site on the corner of Halesowen Road and Barrs Road was selected, with working starting in October 1937, as well as the structure 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 combined with the districts of Oldbury as well as Smethwick to create the Warley County Borough, and also entered into Worcestershire. There had formerly been strategies to incorporate Rowley Regis into an expanded Dudley district, and for Halesowen to join up with Oldbury as well as Smethwick instead. 8 years later, in 1974, on the development of the West Midlands Metropolitan region, Warley combined with West Bromwich to develop the Sandwell Metropolitan District. It is currently appropriate in the core of the West Midlands conurbation.
