| Rowley Regis | |
  Rowley Regis shown within the West Midlands |
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| OS grid reference | |
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| Metropolitan borough | Sandwell |
| Metropolitan county | West Midlands |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | ROWLEY REGIS |
| Postcode district | B65 |
| Dialling code | 0121 |
| Police | West Midlands |
| Fire | West Midlands |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| European Parliament | West Midlands |
| UK Parliament | Halesowen and Rowley Regis |
| List of places: UK • England • West Midlands | |
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History
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. Blackheath is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England. Cradley Heath is a town in the Black Country, located in Sandwell Metropolitan borough, England. These places were all within the ancient parish of Rowley Regis, which (despite being in Staffordshire) was in the diocese of Worcester. Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. The Diocese of Worcester forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England. 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 village sits on Rowley Hill which makes up part of the Rowley Hills famed for the quarrying of Rowley Rag Stone. The Rowley Hills are located in the county of West Midlands, England. Rowley Rag was a volcanic Dolerite stone quarried in the stone quarries (known locally as the 'Quacks' of the Rowley Hills in the West Midlands of the
The present St Giles Church on Church Road is not the first church. Saint Giles (Αιγίδιος Ægidius Gilles Egidio Egidio Gil c It was designed by Holland W. Hobbiss and A. Holland W Hobbiss was an architect in the Birmingham area of England. S. Dixon and was built in 1923. [1] The previous church, built in 1904 was burned down in 1913 by arsonists. Prior to that, the original church, built in 1840, was found to be unsafe and condemned in 1900.
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. Oldbury is a Town in the West Midlands in England. It is a part of the Black Country and the administrative centre of the borough of Sandwell County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (excluding Scotland) to refer to a Borough or a City Warley was from 1966 to 1974 a County borough and Civil parish formed by the combination of the existing county borough of Smethwick with the non-county Worcestershire (ˈwʊstəʃə abbreviated Worcs) is a county located in the West Midlands region of central England. 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. The West Midlands is a Metropolitan county in western central England with a population of 2591300 West Bromwich ( is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the West Midlands, England History of the Borough The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 as a merger of the County boroughs of Warley (associated with Worcestershire It is now right in the core of the West Midlands conurbation. The West Midlands conurbation is the name given to the large Conurbation that includes the cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton and the large towns of
Rowley Regis railway station opened in 1867. Rowley Regis railway station serves the Rowley Regis area of Sandwell, in the West Midlands of England.
The town's grammar school was opened on Hawes Lane in September 1962, however in 1974 the site continued to function, but as Rowley Regis 6th Form College, the last intake of grammar school pupils having been inducted the previous year. A grammar school is one of several different types of School in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries The building itself closed in 2003 to become part of Dudley College, who used it as a campus until 2004. Dudley College is a College of Further education in Dudley, West Midlands, England. The building was demolished over the winter of 2007/2008 and the site is to be redeveloped as the new St Michael's Church of England High School, which is set to open in about 2010 to replace the existing 1960s structure on Throne Road. St Michael's Church of England High School is a secondary school located in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England.
Neighbourhoods
- Rowley Village
- Blackheath
- Whiteheath
- Lion Farm
- Portway
- Ross
- Brickhouse Farm
- Lodgefields
- The Green
Famous residents
- Carlton Palmer - Former England and Sheffield Wednesday F.C. footballer
References
- ^ The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, Nikolaus Pevsner, 1963 p89
External links
Blackheath is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England. Carlton Lloyd Palmer (born 5 December, 1965 in Rowley Regis) is a former English professional football player who played as a The English national football team represents England in international football and is controlled by The Football Association, the governing body for footballDapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic