ROWLEY-REGIS, a parish in the northern division
of the hundred of SEISDON, county of STAFFORD, 3
miles (S. E.) from Dudley, containing 6062 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage
of Clent, in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and
diocese of Worcester. The church is dedicated to St.
Giles. There is a place of worship for Baptists. Lady
Elizabeth Monnins, in 1703, founded a free school, with
an endowment of £15 a year, for the education of
twenty-four children; and in 1790, George Macklinnan
gave a rent-charge of £21, which is applied to teaching
thirty children. Coal is obtained in the vicinity.