Rowley Regis is a town as well as historical church as well as a former metropolitan borough, in the Birmingham region of the West Midlands, England. Taken into consideration one of the 6 'communities' that make up the modern-day Sandwell Metropolitan District, it includes the wards of Blackheath, Cradley Heath and also Old Hill, as well as Rowley Village. At the 2011 census, the consolidated population of Rowley Regis was 50,257. Originally in Staffordshire, the Rowley Regis Urban Area was formed in 1894 to cover the towns of Rowley, Blackheath, Cradley Heath, as well as Old Hill. The metropolitan area was incorporated right into a local district in 1933. Complying with the acquisition of borough condition, strategies were revealed to build brand-new council workplaces in the district to change the existing workplaces in Lawrence Lane, Old Hill. A site on the corner of Halesowen Road and also Barrs Road was picked, with working commencing in October 1937, as well as the building 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 borough of Rowley Regis combined with the districts of Oldbury and also Smethwick to form the Warley County Borough, as well as became part of Worcestershire. There had actually formerly been plans to include Rowley Regis into a broadened Dudley borough, and also for Halesowen to join up with Oldbury and also Smethwick instead. 8 years later, in 1974, on the formation of the West Midlands Metropolitan region, Warley combined with West Bromwich to create the Sandwell Metropolitan District. It is now right in the core of the West Midlands urban sprawl.