Rowley Regis

 town, district

Rowley Regis is a town and urban district in the Sandwell metropolitan borough of the West Midlands county and a part of the Black Country in the United Kingdom. Being part of the Black Country, locals speak with the traditional dialect, though in a form regarded by many as the quickest and the hardest to understand.

The history of Rowley Regis began centuries ago when a small village grew around the parish church of St Giles approximately two miles south-east of Dudley. It began to develop as a town between the two world wars, when thousands of privately owned and local authority houses were built in the surrounding area. During that time, Rowley Regis became a borough and incorporated the neighbouring communities of Blackheath, Old Hill and Cradley Heath. These places were all within the ancient parish of Rowley Regis, which (despite being in the county of Staffordshire) was in the diocese of Worcester. The parish contained the manors of Rowley Regis and Rowley Somery, the latter being part of the barony of Dudley, but the extents of these manors and the relationship between.

In 1966, Rowley Regis borough merged with the borough of Oldbury and Smethwick county borough to form Warley County Borough and became part of Worcestershire. Eight years later, in 1974, on the formation of the West Midlands Metropolitan county, Warley merged with West Bromwich County Borough to form Sandwell Metropolitan Borough. It is now right in the core of the West Midlands conurbation.

Neighbourhoods within the district include : Rowley Village, Blackheath, Whiteheath
Portway, Ross, Brickhouse Farm, Lodgefields, Newtown, Haden Hill, Lomie Town and these in turn are now represented on Sandwell MBC through three electoral wards, namely : Rowley, Blackheath and Cradley Heath & Old Hill.

for history of rowley Regis see @:
www.birminghamuk.com/rowleyregis.htm

Large scale online digi-map used in drawing attached polygon is viewable @ :
www.sandwelltrends.info/themedpages/WPSumm