It covers the area bounded by the Rugby to Coventry railway line, the River Sowe and the city's boundary with Warwickshire.

[4] During the Second World War the Chace National Service Hostel was built in the area to accommodate the influx of munitions workers to the City.

The area today remains mainly residential though to the south-east there is 9 hectares of woodland called Willenhall Wood which has been designated a nature reserve.

Willenhall has 3 Primary schools : For Secondary education the pupils of the above primary schools normally advance to : The Church of England parish church for Willenhall is St John the Divine, which was designed by Basil Spence and consecrated in 1957.

The aircraft was a Boeing 737 that was owned and operated by Air Algerie but leased by Phoenix Aviation to undertake a number of live veal calf export flights from the airport.