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Rowley Regis

Rowley Regis is a town in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands County, England.

Rowley Regis
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The place

Rowley Regis is a town in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands County, England. Historically in Staffordshire, it forms part of the Black Country and encompasses the four Sandwell council wards of both towns of Blackheath and Cradley Heath, as well as the areas of Old Hill, Rowley and Tividale. At the 2011 census, the combined population of these wards was 50,257.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rowley Regis

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Dudley Castle

    Dudley Castle is a ruined fortification in the town of Dudley, West Midlands, England. Originally, a wooden motte and bailey castle built soon after the Norman Conquest, it was rebuilt as a stone fortification during the twelfth century but subsequently demolished on the orders of Henry II of England.

    3.6 km · Grade I listed castle in Dudley, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Galton Bridge

    The Galton Bridge is a cast-iron bridge in Smethwick, near Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England. Opened in 1829 as a road bridge, the structure has been pedestrianised since the 1970s.

    5 km · cast-iron canal bridge in Smethwick, West Midlands, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tividale Tirupathy Balaji Temple

    The Shri Venkateswara Temple is a Hindu temple located on a 30-acre site in Tividale, a suburb of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. It is dedicated in the Vaishnava tradition to Venkateswara, a form of the Hindu god Vishnu.

    3.1 km · Hindu temple in Tividale, West Midlands, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Dudley Zoo

    Dudley Zoo & Castle is a 40-acre zoo within a 200-acre densely-wooded site located within the grounds of Dudley Castle in the town of Dudley, in the Black Country region of the West Midlands, England. The zoo opened to the public on 18 May 1937.

    3.4 km · zoo in West Midlands, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    The Leasowes

    The Leasowes is a 57-hectare estate in Halesowen, historically in the county of Shropshire, later Worcestershire, England, comprising house and gardens. The parkland is now listed Grade I on English Heritage's Register of Parks and Gardens and the home of the Halesowen Golf Club.

    4 km · house in Halesowen, West Midlands, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    BCN Main Line

    The BCN Main Line, or Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line is the evolving route of the Birmingham Canal between Birmingham and Wolverhampton in England. The name Main Line was used to distinguish the main Birmingham to Wolverhampton route from the many other canals and branches built or acquired by the Birmingham Canal Navigations company.

    5.6 km · Canal in and around Birmingham , England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Haden Hill Park

    Haden Hill Park is at Haden Hill, between Halesowen and Old Hill in the West Midlands, England, on the southern edge of the Black Country. Within its grounds are the sixteenth and seventeenth century Haden Hall, the Victorian Haden Hill House and Corngreaves Nature Reserve.

    2.5 km · public park in Cradley Heath, Sandwell, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Daniel Batham and Son Ltd

    Bathams is a brewery in Brierley Hill, West Midlands, England established in 1877 in a former slaughterhouse. The brewery is described by the CAMRA Good Beer Guide as "A classic Black country small brewery".

    5.4 km · brewery in Brierley Hill · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Engine Arm

    The Engine Arm or Birmingham Feeder Arm near Smethwick, West Midlands, England, is a short canal which was originally part of a feeder tunnel for a pumping engine. When the Smethwick flight of locks were reduced from six to three, the pumping engine was moved to a new site, which allowed part of the feeder tunnel to be opened up and made navigable, so that coal supplies for the engine could be delivered by barge.

    5.8 km · canal in West Midlands, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Engine Arm Aqueduct

    The Engine Arm Aqueduct is a canal aqueduct at Smethwick, in the West Midlands of England. It was built in 1829 by Thomas Telford to carry a water feeder, the Engine Arm, over the New Main Line of the Birmingham Canal Navigations.

    5.8 km · Grade II* listed canal aqueduct in Warley, West Midlands, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Rowley Regis

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 21 km · East Midlands (EMA), 62 km · Manchester (MAN), 97 km
Stations
Smethwick Rolfe Street railway station, 5.4 km · Smethwick Galton Bridge railway station, 5 km · Rowley Regis railway station, 1.8 km · Tipton railway station, 4.8 km · Sandwell and Dudley railway station, 3.5 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Rowley Regis
    80 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £9–12
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Rowley Regis
    112 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £12–17
  • Liverpool → Rowley Regis
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rowley Regis

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Rowley Regis. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inHolyhead's ferry port ensures that the north of Wales is well connected with the whole West Midlands.

From Wikivoyage: West Midlands (county), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    207 km
  2. 02
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    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    232 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

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  4. 04
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    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    434 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    458 km

If you know how people move in Rowley Regis – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Rowley Regis

Rowley Regis is 10 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Dudleytown in West Midlands, England4.6 km
  • Sandwellmetropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England2.9 km
  • Halesowentown in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands, England4.2 km
  • Smethwicktown in Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, England5.5 km
  • Oldburytown in the West Midlands in England3 km
  • Tiptontown in the borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England4.5 km