[2] Its shape is roughly square with a north western outcrop (salient) largely covered by railway lines and lakes.

Land slopes from west to east with the eastern border being the slightly altered, early meander of the River Tame.

The hall itself in this parish is Grade II* listed for its architecture, which has its date of main construction inscribed and recorded which is 1593 (in the reign of Elizabeth I).

[3] Typical of manor houses and farmhouses of that era the main entrance gives access to a stone vaulted cross passage between the backs of 2 fireplaces.

[3] This southwestern part of the village is first a cluster of farms and cottages, four of which are c.1800 and listed (for two of which below, being made out of stone rather than brick).

This stretch overlooks the Ladywalk Nature reserve on the opposite bank, beyond which is the Hams Hall National Distribution Park, used for storage of goods.

To the southwest of this area is a fresh water treatment works, including for a Grade II listed Victorian pumping station, serving part of the region, Blythe End water mill and to the west the Coleshill Industrial Park.

[4] By 1086, its eight households rendered only £0.5 a year and its lord of the manor was Edwin who held under Thorkil of Warwick, its overlord, a relatively unusual name being strongly norse rather than a hybrid or Norman.

It passed to the Crown on the attainder of his Catholic son, Sir Francis Throckmorton, in 1584, thereafter for a few years held by John Cowper and William Kente.