Place:Sandwell (metropolitan borough), West Midlands, England

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NameSandwell (metropolitan borough)
TypeBorough (metropolitan)
Coordinates52.505°N 2.017°W
Located inWest Midlands, England     (1974 - )
See alsoOldbury, Worcestershire, Englandtown making up the Borough of Sandwell
Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, Englandtown making up the Borough of Sandwell
Smethwick, Staffordshire, Englandtown making up the Borough of Sandwell
Tipton, Staffordshire, Englandtown making up the Borough of Sandwell
Wednesbury, Staffordshire, Englandtown making up the Borough of Sandwell
West Bromwich, Staffordshire, Englandtown making up the Borough of Sandwell
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Smethwick
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Sandwell is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. The borough is named after the Sandwell Priory, and spans a densely populated part of both the Black Country and the West Midlands conurbation. The borough comprises the six towns of Oldbury, Rowley Regis, Smethwick, Tipton, Wednesbury, and West Bromwich, and these places consist of numerous smaller settlements and localities. Although West Bromwich is the largest town in the borough and is its designated "strategic town centre", Sandwell Council House (the headquarters of the local authority) is situated in Oldbury.

Bordering Sandwell is the City of Birmingham to the east, the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley to the south and west, the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall to the north, and the City of Wolverhampton to the north-west.

At the 2011 census, the borough had population of 309,000 and an area of 86 square kilometres (33 sq mi).

The Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell was formed on 1 April 1974 as an amalgamation of the county boroughs of Warley (ceremonially within Worcestershire) and West Bromwich (ceremonially within Staffordshire), under the Local Government Act 1972. Warley had been formed in 1966 by a merger of the county borough of Smethwick with the municipal boroughs of Rowley Regis and Oldbury; at the same time, West Bromwich had absorbed the boroughs of Tipton and Wednesbury.

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