Local people have been cropping the bushes of their fruit each autumn for hundreds of years to make jams, preserves or apple and bilberry pies.

Birmingham City Council finally purchased Cofton Hill, Lickey Warren and Pinfield Wood outright in 1920.

The building was donated to the people of Birmingham by Mr. and Mrs. Barrow Cadbury in 1904 as the Lickey Tea Rooms and remained in use as a restaurant until the early 1960s.

[3] In the winter of 2008, the Centre was under threat of imminent closure over funding issues, and there was an internet campaign to save the facility for future use by young people.

The darker quartzite making up Bilberry Hill shows signs of having been deposited as sand at the bottom of a shallow sea.