Rowley Regis is a town and historic parish as well as a previous municipal borough, in the Birmingham region of the West Midlands, England. Considered among the 6 'communities' that comprise the modern Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, it includes the wards of Blackheath, Cradley Heath as well as Old Hill, and Rowley Village. At the 2011 census, the consolidated population of Rowley Regis was 50,257. Originally 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 urban district was incorporated right into a metropolitan district in 1933. Adhering to the purchase of borough standing, strategies were revealed to build new council offices in the borough to replace the existing offices in Lawrence Lane, Old Hill. A site on the edge of Halesowen Road as well as Barrs Road was selected, with working beginning in October 1937, and the structure being finished in December 1938. The local government framework within North Worcestershire and also South Staffordshire-- Prior to the West Midlands Order 1965 reorganisation. In 1966, the borough of Rowley Regis merged with the boroughs of Oldbury and also Smethwick to create the Warley County Borough, and also entered into Worcestershire. There had actually formerly been strategies to incorporate Rowley Regis into an increased Dudley district, and for Halesowen to join up with Oldbury and also Smethwick rather. 8 years later, in 1974, on the development of the West Midlands Metropolitan county, Warley merged with West Bromwich to form the Sandwell Metropolitan District. It is now right in the core of the West Midlands urban sprawl.
