It lies on the south eastern edge of the city and borders the neighbouring Staffordshire Moorlands district.

Apart from the two halls, the area remained mostly farmland until the 20th century when residential development started along Leek Road.

Post war development saw much more housing built until Weston Coyney now merge into Meir without a break.

The exception to the rural land use was at the western side of Weston Coyney where coal deposits existed.

The last coal mine was Park Hall colliery which closed in 1962 when incorporated with the nearby Florence Pit.

Coalville was built in 1954 to provide cheap housing to attract more miners to work in the then thriving North Staffordshire coalfield.

Designed with a life span of only 15 years, by the 1980s they were found to be unsellable as the reinforced concrete they were built of was disintegrating.

Although about 150 homes were improved to make them more marketable, the rest continued to deteriorate and by the late 1990s the estate was collapsing into a state of near dereliction.

There are no major watercourses but the River Blithe forms the eastern boundary of the area and of the city.