Editing Worcestershire (section)

===1966–1974===
[[File:Broadway Tower 2012.jpg|thumbnail|[[Broadway Tower, Worcestershire|Broadway Tower]], one of several Worcestershire [[folly|follies]]]]During the Local Government reorganisation of April 1966, Dudley expanded beyond its historical boundaries and took in the bulk of [[Sedgley]],<ref name="Sedgley">[[Staffordshire County Council]] [http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/history/placeguide/SPGSedgley.aspx Staffordshire Place Guide – Sedgley] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405163807/https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/history/placeguide/SPGSedgley.aspx |date=5 April 2019 }} – Retrieved 7 May 2020</ref> [[Brierley Hill]] and the south of [[Coseley]] as well as a small section of [[Amblecote]].<ref name="Amblecote">[[Staffordshire County Council]] [http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/history/placeguide/SPGAmblecote.aspx Staffordshire Place Guide – Amblecote] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405163810/https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/history/placeguide/SPGAmblecote.aspx |date=5 April 2019 }} – Retrieved 7 May 2020</ref> The Local Government Act redefined its status and the [[County Borough of Dudley]] became part of Staffordshire, the county of which all of these areas had been part. At the same time, Worcestershire gained a new [[county borough]] named [[County Borough of Warley|Warley]], which was an amalgamation of [[Oldbury Urban District]], [[Rowley Regis Urban District]], the [[County Borough of Smethwick]] and parts of Dudley and [[Tipton]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Warley County Borough |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10206236&c_id=10001043 |access-date=29 July 2014 |publisher=Vision of Britain}}; West Midlands Order 1965, S.I. 1965, no. 2139, pp. 5-7, 85-6, 120, 122-3.</ref> During this reorganisation, the area of the administrative county grew only where [[Stourbridge]] took in the majority of [[Amblecote Urban District]]<ref>HM Government Legislation – The West Midland Counties Order 1965</ref> from Staffordshire and the designation of Redditch in 1964 as a [[New town|New Town]]. This in turn saw expansion into the area in and around the villages of [[Ipsley]] and [[Matchborough]] in Warwickshire. The Redditch New Town designation coincided with a considerable programme of social and private house building in [[Droitwich]], Worcester, Bromsgrove, Kidderminster and along the Birmingham boundary at [[Frankley]], [[Rubery]] and [[Rednal]].<ref>[http://www.legislation.co.uk HM Government Legislation] [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1952/54/pdfs/ukpga_19520054_en.pdf Town Development Act 1952] – Retrieved 15 August 2014</ref> Frankley parish was later split into two: [[New Frankley]] and the area around [[Bartley Reservoir]] transferred from Bromsgrove District to Birmingham in April 1995; but the small village of Frankley remained in Worcestershire and became a new [[civil parish]] under the same name.