[5] Rural manors perpetuated noncontiguous holdings to allow diverse agriculture production and decrease risk of catastrophic crop failure due to natural disasters.

[8] On 1 April 1966 the parish was abolished and merged with Dudley, Stourbridge, Himley and Kinver, part also went to form Warley.

[9] Recent house building, commencing in the 1950s and 1960s, has largely destroyed the original rural character of Kingswinford, the result being the complete absorption of the former village into the adjoining urban area.

Until its closure in 2012, Kingswinford was home to food retailer Julian Graves' head office and distribution centre.

It is situated on the extreme western edge of the conurbation, and to the north, east and south lie other suburban areas of the Black Country.

However, the border to the west is green belt, which stretches for many miles through Staffordshire, Shropshire, beyond the Severn Valley and into Wales.

It was here in 1605 that most of the men who had attempted to blow up Parliament with Guy Fawkes were cornered, and a bloody gunfight ensued, resulting in the deaths of at least four of the conspirators, including their leader Robert Catesby.

Many of the streets of the Charterfields housing development, built during the 1970s, adopted the names of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, such as Catesby Drive (Robert Catesby), Digby Road (Sir Everard Digby), Keyes Drive (Robert Keyes), Tresham Road (Francis Tresham), Ambrose Crescent (Ambrose Rokewood), Monteagle Drive (Lord Monteagle – William Parker) and Rokewood Close (Ambrose Rokewood).

Located in the heart of Kingswinford on the corner of Moss Grove and the High Street lies The Cross Inn.

[citation needed] First recorded in the 1750 parish map, it was owned in the early 19th century by Diana Briscoe of Summerhill House.

Gornal Halt has since been replaced by residential development, and Himley station now forms part of the South Staffordshire Railway Walk.

Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC West Midlands and ITV Central.

The area known as Campus 21 has benefitted from investment including the building of The Brier School (SEN 5–19) and a new sports hall.