Rowley Regis is a town and historic church as well as a previous local borough, in the Birmingham area of the West Midlands, England. Taken into consideration one of the six 'towns' that comprise the modern-day Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, it includes the wards of Blackheath, Cradley Heath and Old Hill, and Rowley Village. At the 2011 census, the mixed population of Rowley Regis was 50,257. Initially in Staffordshire, the Rowley Regis Urban Area was developed in 1894 to cover the villages of Rowley, Blackheath, Cradley Heath, as well as Old Hill. The city area was integrated right into a local district in 1933. Following the acquisition of borough status, plans were introduced to construct new council workplaces in the borough to replace the existing workplaces in Lawrence Lane, Old Hill. A site on the edge of Halesowen Road and Barrs Road was picked, with functioning starting in October 1937, as well as the structure being completed in December 1938. The city government structure within North Worcestershire and also South Staffordshire-- Before the West Midlands Order 1965 reorganisation. In 1966, the district of Rowley Regis combined with the boroughs of Oldbury and also Smethwick to develop the Warley County Borough, as well as entered into Worcestershire. There had actually previously been strategies to include Rowley Regis into a broadened Dudley district, and for Halesowen to join up with Oldbury and also Smethwick rather. Eight years later on, in 1974, on the formation of the West Midlands Metropolitan area, Warley merged with West Bromwich to develop the Sandwell Metropolitan District. It is now best in the core of the West Midlands urban sprawl.