Rowley Regis is a town as well as historical parish in addition to a previous local borough, in the Birmingham region of the West Midlands, England. Considered among the 6 'towns' that consist of the modern Sandwell Metropolitan District, it incorporates the wards of Blackheath, Cradley Heath as well as Old Hill, as well as Rowley Town. At the 2011 census, the combined population of Rowley Regis was 50,257. Originally in Staffordshire, the Rowley Regis Urban Area was created in 1894 to cover the villages of Rowley, Blackheath, Cradley Heath, as well as Old Hill. The metropolitan district was incorporated into a metropolitan district in 1933. Following the procurement of district condition, plans were revealed to develop brand-new council workplaces in the borough to change the existing workplaces in Lawrence Lane, Old Hill. A site on the corner of Halesowen Road as well as Barrs Road was picked, with functioning starting in October 1937, and the building being completed in December 1938. The city government framework within North Worcestershire as well as South Staffordshire-- Before the West Midlands Order 1965 reorganisation. In 1966, the borough of Rowley Regis combined with the districts of Oldbury and Smethwick to create the Warley County Borough, and entered into Worcestershire. There had actually formerly been strategies to incorporate Rowley Regis into an expanded Dudley district, and also for Halesowen to join up with Oldbury and also Smethwick instead. Eight years later, in 1974, on the formation of the West Midlands Metropolitan county, Warley combined with West Bromwich to create the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough. It is now right in the core of the West Midlands city.