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Rowley Regis (/ ˈ r aʊ l i ˈ r iː dʒ ɪ s / ROW-lee REE-jis) is a town and former municipal borough in Sandwell in the county of the West Midlands, England.It forms part of the area immediately west of Birmingham known as the Black Country and encompasses the three Sandwell council wards of Blackheath, Cradley Heath and Old Hill, and Rowley. [2]
Halesowen and Rowley Regis was a House of Commons constituency [n 1] in the West Midlands represented in the UK Parliament from 1997 until 2024. [n 2]By the decision of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was abolished and replaced by the new Halesowen constituency with similar boundaries except for Rowley Regis and Blackheath transferred to the new seats of West ...
As a consequence of knock-on changes and the need to reduce the overall number of seats in the Black Country portion of the West Midlands county by one, Dudley North, Halesowen and Rowley Regis, Wolverhampton South West, Warley, West Bromwich East, West Bromwich West, Walsall North and Walsall South were abolished and replaced by Dudley ...
The majority of the Halesowen and Rowley Regis constituency – excluding the Rowley ward (moved to West Bromwich) and the bulk of the Blackheath ward (moved to Smethwick) The Cradley and Wollescote, and Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood wards, transferred from the Stourbridge constituency
Rowley Regis: 39,050 34,260 New in 2011. Previously part of Oldbury-Smethwick USD. 18 Bilston: 34,640 29,556 New in 2011. Previously part of Wolverhampton USD. 19
Rowley Regis and Tipton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the towns of Rowley Regis and Tipton in Staffordshire (now West Midlands).The Rowley Regis section of the constituency was in Worcestershire from 1966 until 1974, as was the Tividale area (originally in the borough of Dudley before those dates.
Examples include Houghton Regis in Bedfordshire, Salcombe Regis in Devon, Bere Regis, Melcombe Regis and Lyme Regis in Dorset, Milton Regis in Kent, Beeston Regis in Norfolk, Grafton Regis in Northamptonshire, Brompton Regis in Somerset, Newton Regis in Warwickshire and Rowley Regis in the West Midlands.
Cradley Heath was originally an area of heathland between Cradley, Netherton, and Old Hill, in the Staffordshire parish of Rowley Regis. The residents of Cradley had grazing rights, subject to an annual payment to the Lord of the Manor. As on other commons in the Black Country, cottages were built encroaching on the heath.