Rowley Regis

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Map sources for Rowley Regis at grid reference SO9687
Map sources for Rowley Regis at grid reference SO9687


Rowley Regis is a town in the Sandwell borough of the West Midlands county, and a part of the Black Country.

It started life centuries ago as a small village which surrounded the parish church of St Giles. 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 expanded to coalesce with Blackheath, Old Hill and Cradley Heath. These places were all within the ancient parish of Rowley Regis, which (despite being in 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 them are not clear.

The present St Giles Church on Church Road is not the first church. It was designed by Holland W. Hobbiss and A. S. Dixon and was built in 1923.[1]

In 1966, Rowley Regis borough merged with the borough of Oldbury and Smethwick county borough to form Warley County Borough. 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. Rowley Regis was previously in the county of Staffordshire, but it is now right in the core of the West Midlands conurbation.

  • Rowley Village
  • Blackheath
  • Whiteheath
  • Lion Farm
  • Portway
  • Ross
  • Brickhouse Farm
  • Lodgefields
  • The Green

  1. ^ The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, Nikolaus Pevsner, 1963 p89

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Coordinates: 52.48091° N 2.06033° W

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