Dosthill is an area of Tamworth, Staffordshire, 2.5 miles south of the town centre, and close to the River Tame.

The area is mostly residential, centering on Dosthill High Street, with local employment on the adjoining Tame Valley Industrial Estate.

The High Street includes a public house called 'The Fox' and Dosthill Primary School (photo) which dates back to 1887.

But twenty-first-century scholarship has preferred the explanation that the first part of the name comes from the Common Brittonic words that survive in modern Welsh as derw ("oaks") and coed ("woodland"), referring to the adjacent wolds.

It has quickly grown in size up until recent centuries, when a large number of housing developments have been constructed.

The foundation stone was laid by Farmer Cheatle, a member of one of the main four original families of Dosthill.

[5] The quarry site consists of several submerged features for divers to explore, including numerous vans, caravans and other vehicles.

[citation needed] Dosthill Lake is home to the West Midlands Water Ski Centre and has been designated as a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC) due to its winter waterfowl populations, swamp vegetation and marshy grassland.