[2] Although Exhall is not mentioned specifically in the Domesday Book, it would have probably formed part of lands owned by Lady Godiva in Ansty and Foleshill.

[2] Although the area remained largely rural until recent times, coal mines were attested from the early 17th century onwards.

During the Industrial Revolution, activities such as coal-mining and brick-making were further developed, leading to an increase in the population of the parish, and consequently the construction of many small houses for workers.

Today the eastern area of Exhall is dominated by the large Bayton Road Industrial Estate which harbours around 200 businesses.

[4][5] In the 1960s, a large industrial estate was created in the east of Exhall, bordering the Coventry-Nuneaton line, at Bayton Road.

Today, the name Exhall applies principally to the area immediately south of Bedworth (centred on Black Bank and Coventry Road Exhall), with Ash Green retaining a somewhat separate identity – a fact accentuated by the construction of the Bedworth Bypass (A444) in 1970 and the final section of the M6 motorway in 1971.

From 1451 to 1842, Exhall was a parish in the Liberty of Coventry, which was geographically in the hundred of Knightlow in the county of Warwickshire, but administratively separate.

[9] It is bounded by a disused mineral railway (that used to serve Newdigate Colliery) to the north, the Coventry-Nuneaton Line to the east, Pickards Way (B4113 spur) and the M6 motorway to the south, and Church Lane/Bowling Green Lane and the River Sowe to the west.

The area makes up the eastern part of the ecclesiastical parish of Exhall St Giles.