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. Image File history File links Dot4gb. ... Image File history File links Gb4dot. ... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... Sandwell is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. ... The County of West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a population of around 2,600,000 people. ... The Black Country is a loosely-defined area of the English West Midlands conurbation, to the north and west of Birmingham, and to the south and east of Wolverhampton, around the South Staffordshire coalfield. ...

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. Blackheath Marketplace Blackheath is a suburb of Rowley Regis, a town in Englands Black Country, part of the administrative district of Sandwell. ... Cradley Heath is town in the Black Country, located in the south-west of the Sandwell metropolitan borough, England. ... The Diocese of Worcester forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England. ...

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] Saint Giles (640?-720?) (Latin: Ægidius, French: Gilles, Italian: Egidio) was a 7th-8th century Christian hermit saint. ... King Edwards School, Edgbaston Holland W. Hobbiss was an architect in the Birmingham area of England. ...

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. Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... Map sources for Oldbury at grid reference SP3194 Oldbury is a town in Englands Black Country. ... County borough was a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom to refer to a borough or a city independent of county administration. ... Warley was a county borough formed in 1966 by the combination of the existing county borough of Smethwick with the towns of Oldbury and Rowley Regis. ... The County of West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a population of around 2,600,000 people. ... The Public by Will Alsop. ... Sandwell is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. ... Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. ... A conurbation is an urban area comprising a number of cities, towns and villages which, through population growth and expansion, have physically merged to form one continuous built up area. ...

Neighbourhoods

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

Blackheath Marketplace Blackheath is a suburb of Rowley Regis, a town in Englands Black Country, part of the administrative district of Sandwell. ...

Famous residents

• Carlton Palmer - Former England and Sheffield Wednesday footballer

Carlton Lloyd Palmer (born 5 December 1965 in Rowley Regis, West Midlands) is a former English professional football player who played as a midfielder, most notably for Sheffield Wednesday. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Sheffield Wednesday are a football club in the English Football League. ...

References

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

External links

• Rowley Regis Online

Coordinates: 52.48091° N 2.06033° W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...