The village today is mainly residential and agricultural, but there is some light industry.

The village appears in the Domesday Book so it was already established in the Saxon period.

However, objects belonging to much earlier Neolithic and Bronze Age times have been found in the soil.

The 18th-century parish church of St Leonards is situated on the main road between Coventry and Tamworth (the B4098 or old A47).

Two of the oldest buildings in the parish are Barbers Farm, dating to 1586 and The Bothie at Botts Green.