Rowley Regis
Rowley Regis is a community and also historic parish along with a former local district, in the Birmingham region of the West Midlands, England. Considered among the six 'communities' that make up the modern-day Sandwell Metropolitan District, it encompasses the wards of Blackheath, Cradley Heath as well as 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 District was formed in 1894 to cover the villages of Rowley, Blackheath, Cradley Heath, and Old Hill. The metropolitan district was integrated right into a community district in 1933. Complying with the purchase of borough status, plans were introduced to develop 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 Barrs Road was chosen, with working starting in October 1937, as well as the building being finished in December 1938. The local government framework within North Worcestershire and also South Staffordshire-- Before the West Midlands Order 1965 reorganisation. In 1966, the district of Rowley Regis merged with the districts of Oldbury and also Smethwick to create the Warley County Borough, and became part of Worcestershire. There had formerly been strategies to incorporate Rowley Regis into a broadened Dudley district, as well as for Halesowen to associate 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 form the Sandwell Metropolitan District. It is currently ideal in the core of the West Midlands city.
