[4] John Vesey, Bishop of Exeter, played a small role in Walmley's early development through the construction of several buildings in the area.

New homes were also constructed along the Walmley Road and Penns Lane as a result of ribbon development.

[8] Information from the 1991 national census published in the plan shows the town's population had, by then, risen rapidly to a total of 17,294.

Minworth and Curdworth both originated in the 6th or 7th centuries, being established by Angle settlers, and are historically associated with the Arden family (William Shakespeare's maternal relations).

When excavations were undertaken for Minworth sewage works, evidence of the Pleistocene period was found here, including the fossilised bones of a mammoth which walked this way one million years ago.

The name of the settlement was documented in the Domesday Book as Meneworde, from the Old English "Mynna's worth", 'Mynna's farmstead'.

The manor had 2 hectares (5 acres) of meadow presumably along the north bank of the River Tame and a small amount of woodland, half a league long by three furlongs wide (2.4 × 0.6 km).

[9] Before the Norman Conquest an Anglo-Saxon, Godric, had held the manor from Thorkell, Lord of Warwick, and he continued to hold it thereafter.

By the middle of the 18th century the mill was also taking advantage of Birmingham's successful armaments trade and was engaged in boring gun barrels.

All traces of the mill are now gone, obliterated by a late 20th-century industrial estate which stands on the site half a mile west of Water Orton Bridge.

Another plan to develop an 11-acre (4 hectare) patch of land into a canal-side marina also met with disapproval from residents, who did not want the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal to become a busy area.

[10] In the fields nearby, Roman coins of the third and fourth centuries have been found, also earthwork features of medieval times.

However, by the 19th century, the number of those attending was low resulting in the closure of the meeting house, which eventually fell into dilapidation.

Wiggins Hill did consist of a 15th-century timber-framed house named Wincelle (the name of the hamlet in Magna Carta); however, in 1910, it was dismantled and reassembled at its current site overlooking New Hall Valley Country Park, in New Hall Valley on the Wylde Green Road in Walmley, Sutton Coldfield.

At the end of Plants Brook, a local nature reserve has been created from reservoirs constructed by Birmingham City Council.

A small school for infants was opened in 1897 and a 35 year old village woman, Emma Hughes, was appointed the mistress.

The board of education threatened to withdraw financial support from the school unless new premises were found, and a permanent village schoolroom became a priority.

With the growing success of Emma Hughes' infant department the necessity for a new school to accommodate the older village children became essential.

Founded in 1792, it was financed from funds impounded by the Courts in respect to acts of alleged mismanagement by the Sutton Corporation.

The Deanery Church of England Infants and Junior School on Fox Hollies Road is also grant-maintained.