Sandwell

Sandwell is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands is in England. Administrative center is the city of Oldbury. By far the largest city with about 137,000 inhabitants, however, is West Bromwich. Other important towns in the Borough are Blackheath, Rowley Regis, Smethwick, Tipton and Wednesbury.

The Borough is situated halfway between Birmingham in the east, in the northwest of Wolverhampton, Walsall and Dudley in the north to the south and west. Historically, it lies at the heart of the imprinted of heavy industry and coal mining the Black Country.

History

Sandwell a far-reaching local government reform was formed on 1 April 1974 in the course and result of the merger of the county boroughs of Warley and West Bromwich, who had previously belonged to the county of Staffordshire. Because of the historic rivalry between West Bromwich and Smethwick (the center of Warley ) was chosen as the seat of the district administration Oldbury.

1986 Sandwell was actually a Unitary Authority, as the central government dissolved the overall management of the West Midlands. Sandwell was for ceremonial purposes part of West Midlands, and also for individual higher-level tasks such as police, fire and public transport.

The district administration was considering in the past several times a name change, because many do not know exactly outside the West Midlands, where Sandwell is all. But no city district really dominated, could not agree on a new name to you.