The pool supports a large variety of fish including, carp, bream, tench, roach, perch, pike and eel.

[3] Effective wildlife management of the pool has attracted various species of wildfowl, including mute swans, moorhens, coots and grebes.

[3] Stowe Pool was originally formed in the 11th century when a dam and mill were constructed across Leamonsley Brook near to St Chads Church.

Nearby stood an enormous willow tree, which became famous for its great size; it was much admired by Johnson, who visited it whenever he returned to Lichfield.

[6] In 1853 the South Staffordshire Waterworks Co. was founded and it was immediately proposed by John Robinson McClean to tap Lichfield's plentiful water resources to supply the Black Country.

[6] In 1856 the mill was demolished, the silt was dredged and an embankment built around the pool to raise the water level bringing it up to its current size.

[6] The stored water in Stowe Pool could then be conveyed back towards Sandfields Pumping Station, where it was piped along the railway line to Walsall.