Nigel had a son, Roger, surnamed Mowbray, from whom, from the middle of the 12th century the de Ardernes, became the Lords of the Manor.

It was granted to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, by Queen Elizabeth I in 1570 but reverted to the Crown after his death.

On Sir Robert's death in 1850, the manor was inherited by his son, Frederick, who did much to 'modernise' Hampton, demolishing many half-timbered and thatched cottages.

[1] The parish church of St. Mary and St. Bartholomew has a chancel, nave with narrow aisles, west tower, south porch, and north vestry.

About the same time the west tower was begun, but carried up only a short way, the completion being delayed until late in the century.

The last medieval alteration was the building of the clerestory in the 16th century in place of the old steeply pitched roof indicated by the lines on the tower.

wide between the low parapets, consisting of five bays with ancient stone piers having pointed cut-water faces on the west side against the flow of the stream—and square projections on the east.

Hampton in Arden is part of the Bickenhill ward of Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, and is represented by Councillors Alison Rolf, Robert Sleigh and Jim Ryan, all of the Conservative Party.

[9] Nationally, it is part of the constituency of Meriden, whose Member of Parliament is a Conservative, Saqib Bhatti.

The line had originally enabled passengers from the Derby, Tamworth, Kingsbury, Whitacre, Shustoke and Coleshill areas to make connections at Hampton for other parts of the country, because at one time the Midland Railway and the London & North Western Railway (LNWR) had stations side by side at Hampton, at the point where the two lines met (called Derby Junction).

The railway provides a link between Birmingham and Coventry approximately every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday.The village is namechecked in the Crokodile Tears song Trains.

The village has one pub, the 17th-century The White Lion public house north-east of the church on the High Street, which is plastered externally, but old beams are exposed inside.

It began life as a private house but was later bought by the local George Fentham charity as a place of recreation for men.