Cradley Heath
Cradley Heath is a town and also ward in the Rowley Regis area of the district of Sandwell, West Midlands, England. It exists within the Black Country, about 2 1/2 miles (4.0 kilometres) south of Dudley as well as 8 miles (13 kilometres) west of main Birmingham. Cradley Heath is usually confused with adjoining Cradley in Halesowen, although the two locations have actually long remained in different local authorities, and up until 1966 were in different regions. Cradley Heath is one of numerous towns in main England still recognisable from their very early 20th-century look. A number of the stores and also houses in the High Street are still standing after 100 years, though some were knocked down in the mid-2000s to give way for a bypass, to alleviate blockage in the community centre.