Employment
For more than a thousand years the area was agricultural. Then came the knitting/hosiery industry, after about 1750. Later still there was some brickmaking, tailoring and shoemaking. There is now a small estate for light industry, small manufacturing businesses.
The majority of employment is now found outside the village, for example, in the Coventry, Hinckley and Leicester town areas.
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