Just beyond the south door in the churchyard is the base of a preaching cross, believed to date to the 10th or 11th century having been placed by the Earl of Mercia.

The area, along with a wide tract of Mercia, was assigned by William the Conqueror to Ansculf de Picquigny, who built a motte and bailey fortress at Dudley.

He had installed in Bushbury a tenant called Robert, who also held lands from him in Penn, Ettingshall, Moseley and Oxley.

In medieval times, Bushbury was divided into several manors, each with a manor house - Bushbury, Essington, Moseley, Elston, Showell (Seawall or Sewell from an earlier unrecorded Old English name - likely Seofan Wealles meaning 'Seven Wells'), Oxley, Wobaston (Wybaston - from an early unrecorded Old English name - likely Wigbeald's tun).

[8] However a short section of Stafford Road was single carriageway between Bushbury Lane and Five Ways Island.

The industry led to rapid housebuilding in the 1930s, and also made the area a significant target for German bombers in the Second World War.

A combination of good fortune and foresight led to a major German bombing raid, shortly after the blitz in Coventry, to be cancelled.

[9] After the end of World War II in 1945, Wolverhampton council erected 400 prefabricated bungalows across the city, and built its first permanent postwar houses at the Underhill Estate near Bushbury in the late 1940s.

Enquiries made by the Express and Star revealed no response from the owner, Garland Leisure Limited, suggesting that nobody really had a clue what was going on.

According to the Express & Star, the owner was said to be 'devastated' and 'didn't know what to do' with the remaining large strip of land, which is located at the end of a residential street, directly opposite the newly constructed KFC fast food restaurant.

Following the closure of Bushbury's suburban rail station, buses provide public transport in and around the area.

[19] Other closed pubs included Butler's Arms which stood on the corner of Kempthorne Avenue and Bushbury Lane.