[2] In 1969 Warwickshire County Council designated part of Great Alne as a Conservation Area, including most of the village east of the Memorial Hall and twelve listed buildings of local architectural and historical value.

[4] The Domesday Book records "in Ferncombe Hundred, Winchcombe Abbey holds 6 hides in (Great) Alne.

"[5] It remained in the hands of the monastery until the dissolution, when it passed to the Crown,[6] who leased it to the Throckmortons of Coughton until 1 December 1599.

[4] Alne Mill, converted into luxury flats in 1989, lies about 0.25 miles (0.40 km) to the south of the village and the road leading down to it is probably the Milnewey or Millway mentioned in 1541 and 1728.

[7] Nationally it is part of Stratford on Avon parliamentary constituency, whose MP since the 2010 election has been Nadhim Zahawi of the Conservatives.

Thomas Clarke, the rector at the time of the puritan ‘Survei of the Ministrie in Warwickshier’ of 1586, was described; "parson no precher nor learned, yet honest of life & zealous in religion he hath 3 or 4 charges & cures beside that of Kynerton, Witeley?

(Weethley) he supplieth by his deputies: his hirelinges that serue by his non-residentship are all dumbe & idle & some of them gamsters : vah of all Ixxx" a yeare.

[14] Great Alne Primary School is located on the edge of the village, about a mile from the outskirts of Alcester.