Rowley Regis
Rowley Regis is a town as well as historic parish as well as a previous local borough, in the Birmingham region of the West Midlands, England. Considered one of the 6 'towns' that comprise the modern-day Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, it includes the wards of Blackheath, Cradley Heath and also 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 created in 1894 to cover the villages of Rowley, Blackheath, Cradley Heath, and also Old Hill. The city area was incorporated into a municipal district in 1933. Adhering to the purchase of district status, plans were introduced to develop new council workplaces in the borough to change the existing offices in Lawrence Lane, Old Hill. A site on the corner of Halesowen Road as well as Barrs Road was picked, with working beginning in October 1937, and the building being completed in December 1938. The city government structure within North Worcestershire and South Staffordshire-- Prior to the West Midlands Order 1965 reorganisation. In 1966, the district of Rowley Regis merged with the districts of Oldbury and also Smethwick to form the Warley County Borough, and also entered into Worcestershire. There had actually previously been plans to integrate Rowley Regis into a broadened Dudley borough, as well as for Halesowen to associate Oldbury and also Smethwick rather. 8 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 currently ideal in the core of the West Midlands conurbation.
