Running opposite expanses of fields and the grounds of Aston Wood golf course, the lane consists of around 50 large, detached houses.

Many residents have complained to the local MP and county council regarding excessive use of the village roads by HGV tippers and artics, exposing young children walking to school to great risk.

Forge lane also contains the entrance to Little Aston's recreation site, a large area of landscaped grassland, popular for dog walking and sports activities.

It has been said but not proved that the fields to the side of the cottages were used by Oliver Cromwell as a camp site on his way north to Chester during the Civil War.

These buildings stand opposite the blacksmiths old forge which is at the top of the lane close to Little Aston Road.

There are around 30 large detached houses on the roadside, and private gated communities such as Beechwood Croft and Woodside Drive where there are multimillion-pound homes.

The majority of Aldridge Road borders the northerly side of the Little Aston Golf Club, although it is hidden by trees.

A stream called Footherley Brook runs alongside holes 12 and 13 of the golf course and underneath a small bridge on Aldridge Road.

The complex is set back from the road on a private gated drive and situated in many acres of grassland and landscaped gardens.

Lady Aston Park is a recent development of around 50 gated luxury apartments, aimed exclusively at the over 55s.

The community borders the Little Aston Hall development, and is alongside the Bupa care home and private hospital.

Little Aston is an electoral ward of Lichfield District Council, although it is separated from the city by open country.

However, a wider ranges of local mini-supermarkets, hairdressers, fish and chips shops, restaurants and pubs are available in neighbouring Burnett Road Streetly and The Crown Four Oaks all half a mile (800 m) away, plus a wide range of trendy restaurants and major supermarkets in Mere Green a mile (1.6 km) away.

Nearby junctions with the A38, M5, M6, M6 Toll and M42 give easy access to the north-east, north-west, south-west and south-east towards London.

National Express West Midlands service 6 also runs through Little Aston every 30 minutes between Walsall and Sutton Coldfield via Aldridge and Mere Green.

On 16 April 1966, a Cessna light aircraft crashed into the rear of number 21 Fotherley Brook Road, Little Aston, killing both the pilot and the passenger.

[11][12] During a school fete organised by the Sutton Coldfield Town Middle School Parent-Teacher Association, which was held in fields at Little Hardwick Road, Little Aston on 7 July 1973, a parachutist, 21-year-old RAF Sergeant Kenneth Cornwell, who was part of a five-man display team, became tangled in 275,000-volt overhead power lines.

[13] Attempts by the local fire brigade to reach him proved fruitless, as their turntable ladder was too short.

[13] A British Army Air Corps' Westland Sioux AH.1 helicopter, registration XT238,[14] of the 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers was diverted from an appearance at another fete, at nearby St. Augustine's Church, Rugeley.

The helicopter crash landed in a nearby field and burst into flames, but the two-man crew evacuated without serious injury.