Edward Oldcorne and Ralph Ashley who had been captured at nearby Hindlip Hall were hanged, drawn and quartered on 7 April 1606.

The others executed were a tenant farmer named Perkes, Humphrey Littleton and John Wintour.

Franciscan priest John Wall was executed at Red Hill on 22 August 1679 during the time of Titus Oates's alleged plot.

Cromwell used the heights of Red Hill and Perry Wood to hold his artillery and most of his troops on 29 August 1651.

[5] The Royalist attacks on the guns were turned back because there was a Worcester spy named Guise.