Oldbury
| Oldbury | |||
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 30 ′ N , 2 ° 1 ′ W | ||
| OS National Grid | SO989897 | ||
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| Residents | 10,830 (as of: 2001) | ||
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| Part of the country | England | ||
| ONS code | 00CSGQ | ||
Oldbury is a city in the West Midlands of England . It is located in the Black Country west of Birmingham and is the seat of the Borough of Sandwell .
Oldbury was a parish in County Shropshire until the late 19th century when it became an independent borough and incorporated into Worcestershire .
In 1966 , Oldbury merged with the east bordering community of Smethwick and southeast Rowley Regis to form the County Borough of Warley . The population of Oldbury-Smethwick is 139,529 ( 2006 ).
1974 Oldbury became part of the new Metropolitan Borough Sandwell (created from the merger of the county boroughs of West Bromwich and Warley); today Oldbury is in West Midlands Metropolitan County .
The M5 motorway runs through Oldbury. The city is also on the Birmingham- Wolverhampton railway line .
Comedian Frank Skinner and radio play speaker and singer Marjorie Westbury , known as Steve Temple in the English radio plays about the detective Paul Temple by Francis Durbridge, come from Oldbury .
Individual evidence
- ^ Names and Codes for Administrative Geography . Office for National Statistics website. Retrieved March 24, 2010.