Rowley Regis
Rowley Regis is a town as well as historic church as well as a previous community borough, in the Birmingham area of the West Midlands, England. Considered one of the 6 'communities' that comprise the modern Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, it incorporates the wards of Blackheath, Cradley Heath and also Old Hill, and Rowley Town. At the 2011 census, the consolidated population of Rowley Regis was 50,257. Originally 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 district was included into a community district in 1933. Following the purchase of borough standing, plans were introduced to construct brand-new council workplaces in the district to replace the existing offices in Lawrence Lane, Old Hill. A site on the edge of Halesowen Road and also Barrs Road was selected, with working beginning in October 1937, and the structure being finished in December 1938. The city 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 boroughs of Oldbury as well as Smethwick to develop the Warley County Borough, and also became part of Worcestershire. There had actually formerly been plans to incorporate Rowley Regis right into an increased Dudley borough, as well as for Halesowen to join up with Oldbury and Smethwick instead. 8 years later, in 1974, on the formation of the West Midlands Metropolitan county, Warley merged with West Bromwich to create the Sandwell Metropolitan District. It is now right in the core of the West Midlands conurbation.
