The parish of St Paul was established in 1865 as a distinct entity from that of Rowley Regis and the new church consecrated in 1869.
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Before 1841, Bleak Heath or Blake Heath was a small group of farm houses and inns on the turnpike road from Oldbury to Halesowen, within Rowley Regis.
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The changes brought about by the industrial revolution led to a Private Act in June that year that allowed the sale of the Rowley Regis glebe lands in order to finance the building of a new vicarage.
Brandhall (along with the rest of the Oldbury borough, and the neighbouring boroughs of Smethwick and Rowley Regis) became part of the County Borough of Warley in 1966, but this arrangement lasted just eight years until Warley merged with West Bromwich to form Sandwell Metropolitan Borough in 1974.
Britannia High School was a secondary school located in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England.
Old Hill was historically in the urban district and later county borough of Rowley Regis, and in the county of Staffordshire.
Most of Tipton was incorporated into an expanded West Bromwich borough but the area around the local authority offices, including most of the new Foxyards estate, was incorporated into Dudley, while most of the Tividale area of the town became part of the new Warley borough which was centred on the towns of Oldbury, Smethwick and Rowley Regis.
The dissolution of Tipton Municipal Borough saw the bulk of the authority absorbed into an expanded borough of West Bromwich, while most of the Tividale area of Tipton was absorbed into the new County Borough of Warley (centred on the towns of Oldbury, Smethwick and Rowley Regis) and a small section of the Tipton Green area (including the former council offices in Sedgley Road West) was absorbed into an expanded County Borough of Dudley.
The name was re-used in 1966 by the creation of the County Borough of Warley, from the merger of Oldbury with Smethwick and Rowley Regis as well as parts of Dudley and Tipton.
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