[1] It lies near the Warwickshire boundary, three miles south-east of Atherstone in the Coventry postcode area, just off the A444, the Roman Watling Street.

The village is four miles from Stoke Golding, where Henry VII of England was crowned after the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

The Grade II listed Anglican Church of St Michael and All Angels in the Diocese of Leicester is in Gothic style with 12th-century Norman features and a 13th-century bell tower.

[5] George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends, or children of light, was born in Drayton-on-the-Clay in July 1624.

[7] The Ordnance Survey in 2002 defined Lindley Hall Farm on the village outskirts as the geographical centre of England.