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The new district was named Sandwell and it was one of the seven districts in the new metropolitan county of the West Midlands. [6] The first election to the new council was held in 1973. For its first year the council acted as a shadow authority alongside the area's outgoing authorities.
From the borough's creation in 1974 until 2010, all Members of Parliament (MPs) within its boundaries were Labour. However, in the 2010 general election, Conservative party candidate James Morris was elected to the Halesowen and Rowley Regis seat which incorporates the Sandwell communities of Rowley Regis, Blackheath and Cradley Heath, and the neighbouring area of Halesowen which is situated ...
Oldbury is a market town in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell, in the county of the West Midlands, England.It is the administrative centre of the borough. At the 2011 census, the town had a population of 13,606, [2] while the 2017 population of the wider built-up area was estimated at 25,488. [3]
Civil parishes in their modern sense date from the Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), which abolished vestries; established elected parish councils in all rural parishes with more than 300 electors; grouped rural parishes into rural districts; and aligned parish boundaries with county and borough boundaries. [7]
This is a list of areas in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England.. Balls Hill; Bearwood; Black Lake; Black Patch; Bloomfield; Brades Village; Brandhall; Brickhouse Farm
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Tipton is an industrial town in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell, in the county of the West Midlands, England.It had a population of 38,777 at the 2011 UK Census. [1] It is located northwest of Birmingham and southeast of Wolverhampton.
The 1899 Smethwick Borough surveyor's map of Smethwick shows Bearwood Ward as including Cheshire Road from its junction immediately opposite the Council House. Bearwood Hill is the old name for the High Street south of Victoria Park. [2] The approach to Cape Hill from Birmingham via Portland Road still (March 2014) has a sign saying Bearwood.