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, cities, canals, country parks, woodlands, lakes, nature reserves and airports.
There are a several good towns in the Rowley Regis area like Dudley, Sutton Coldfield, and West Bromwich.
There are a several good shopping centres in the Rowley Regis area like Merry Hill, and Bullring & Grand Central.
There are a number of cities near Rowley Regis including Birmingham, and Coventry.
Places near Rowley Regis feature a number of interesting canals including Birmingham to Wolverhampton Canal.
Rowley Regis has some unmissable country parks nearby like Lickey Hills Country Park, Woodgate Valley Country Park, Sutton Park, Kingsbury Water Park, Sandwell Valley Country Park, and Coombe Country Park.
The area around Rowley Regis's best woodlands can be found at Lickey Hills Country Park.
There are a number of lakes near to Rowley Regis including Kingsbury Water Park.
Places near Rowley Regis feature a number of interesting nature reserves including RSPB Sandwell Valley.
There are a number of airports near to Rowley Regis including 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.
