Rowley Regis
Rowley Regis is a Town in the county of West Midlands.
Rowley Regis postcode: B65 8
There are great places to visit near Rowley Regis including some great towns, shopping centres, castles, cities, canals, country parks, woodlands, parks, historic buildings, villages, museums, gardens, nature reserves, lakes and airports.
The area around Rowley Regis boasts some of the best towns including Dudley, Stourbridge, Halesowen, Moseley, Handsworth, Harborne, and Sutton Coldfield.
The area around Rowley Regis features a number of interesting shopping centres including Merry Hill, and Bullring & Grand Central.
Dudley Castle, and Caluden Castle (ruin) are great places to visit near Rowley Regis if you like castles.
Birmingham, Coventry, and Wolverhampton are great places to visit near Rowley Regis if you like cities.
The area around Rowley Regis's best canals can be found at Birmingham to Wolverhampton Canal.
Country Parks to visit near Rowley Regis include Lickey Hills Country Park, Woodgate Valley Country Park, Sutton Park, Kingsbury Water Park, Sandwell Valley Country Park, Coombe Country Park, and Coombe Abbey Country Park.
There are a number of woodlands near Rowley Regis including Lickey Hills Country Park, and Walsall Arboretum.
Parks to visit near Rowley Regis include Cannon Hill Park, Grove Park, Caludon Castle Park, Baddesley Clinton, Elmdon Park, and Walsall Arboretum.
Rowley Regis has some unmissable historic buildings nearby like Victoria Square - Birmingham, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Selly Manor Museum, Baddesley Clinton, St Alphege Parish Church, and Packwood House.
There are a several good villages in the Rowley Regis area like Bournville, and Lea Marston.
Museums to visit near Rowley Regis include Selly Manor Museum, and Cadbury World.
There are a number of gardens near to Rowley Regis including The Birmingham Botanical Gardens.
Nature Reserves to visit near Rowley Regis include Moseley Bog, RSPB Sandwell Valley, and Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve.
Lakes to visit near Rowley Regis include Pendigo Lake, Cocks Close Pond, Kingsbury Water Park, and Earlswood Lakes.
The area around Rowley Regis's best airports can be found at Birmingham Airport.
Rowley Regis History
There are some historic monuments around Rowley Regis:
Places to see near Rowley Regis
History of Rowley Regis
The history of Rowley Regis began in the 12th century, when a small village grew around the parish church of St. Giles, approximately two miles south-east of the town of Dudley. Rowley was part of the Royal hunting grounds - Regis was added to the name of Rowley in around 1140 to signify it was that part of Rowley belonging to the King. It began to develop substantially 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 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 them are not clear.
The present St. Giles Church on Church Road is not the original church in Rowley Regis. The church built in 1840 to succeed the original mediaeval building, was found to be unsafe and condemned in 1900. The next church, built in 1904, was burned down in 1913, some believing the fire to have been started by Suffragettes or local striking steelworkers; this however is supposition and it was more than probable it was a simple accident, the church at this time using parrafin as a means of lighting and the latter perhaps causing the fire. Its present day successor was designed by Holland W. Hobbiss and A. S. Dixon, and was built in 1923.
Rowley Regis railway station opened in 1867 in the south of the then village, and remains in use to this day.
