[10] Mason Cash became a well-known English pottery, producing many kinds of ceramic mixing and baking ware.

The club was relegated in 2009 to the East Midlands Counties League and is now named Gresley FC.

Its training pitch is the main football pitch of Church Gresley's Maurice Lea Memorial Park, which is named after Maurice Lea, who died in France, the age of 19, during World War I.

Opposite the park is Gresley Common, the venue for annual bonfire nights until 2003 and the local Scouts.

Early in the 2010s the extensive Highgrove housing development effectively created an entirely new district contiguously north of the village.

The Sustrans National Cycle Network route passes through Maurice Lea Park and leaves the village via Thorpe Downs Road.

Route 63 uses the off-road and family-friendly Conkers Circuit to link Church Gresley with the heart of the National Forest then continues off-road to Measham on the track of the disused Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway and parts of the Ashby Woulds Heritage Trail.

An alternative branch of route 63 circles the lake at nearby Albert Village.