Blackheath is a town in the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, in the county of West Midlands, England. Before 1841, Bleak Heath or Blake Heat…Blackheath is a town in the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, in the county of West Midlands, England. 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. 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.
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