This was an old farm towards the bottom end of Cotwall End Road and was supposedly mentioned in the Doomsday Book.
A colliery was established nearby in the early twentieth century.
The farm buildings were demolished sometime in the 1960s.

The Straits Housing Estate built on the other side of the Cotwall End Road and laid out in 1959, and was originally called "Conqueror's Farm Estate".

The Caswell family farmed at Cotwall End since early 19th Century, the farm given up in 1907 by Mrs. S.B.Caswell.

John Timmins was the farmer here in 1936. (Kelly's Trade Directory)
Benjamin Timmins farmed here in the 1940s. (Kelly's Trade Directory)

When the owner, the Earl of Dudley sold off this property in 1947, it was said that it has an area 98½ acres and included the benefit of lease of clays.

The farm was located at the bottom end of Graveyard (Grosvenor) Road.
The bleak 'Graveyard' area name was changed in the 1940's to the characterless 'Grosvenor' and the farm was appropriately re-named Grosvenor Farm.
The buildings were demolished sometime in the 1950s.

According to Census records, Joseph Law and family farmed at the Graveyard from 1851 until at least 1901. The 1861 Census records him as a farmer of 80 acres and employing 3 men
In 1881 Joseph Law was described as a farmer of 88 acres, employing 2 Men, 1 Boy and 2 Women.
1901 census shows him still a Farmer at the Graveyard and now aged 84, he died shortly after this, his Son Stephen was a Farm Baliff.

Joseph Law died in May 1902 at the age of 86.

1924-1940, Henry Waldron, farmer, Graveyard Farm. [Kelly's Directory]

Mentioned in 1902 newspaper report and in a trade directory of 1914, Mr Leek, resident.
In the 1911 Census, Joseph Leek, occupation farmer and his family resided there, Joseph was the son of Edmund Leek, bellows maker of Upper Gornal.
Apparently the farm was located on Burton Road, perhaps just over the parish border.

This farm was located near to Ellowes Hall, the site now covered by the Ellowes School Playing fields, not to be confused with the Abbey Farm in Gornal Wood.
The old farm buildings were in a derelict state by the 1950s and cleared before the Ellowes School was built.
1851, 'Old Abbey' occupied by William Elwell, a stone mason and his family.
In the 1901 Census, the Farm was occupied by Charles Harvey, occupation - "Carter on Farm", his wife is described as a "Poultry Woman".
The farm could have predated the Ellowes, and the possibility had connections with Dudley Priory, thus given the name, however nothing conclusive found.

Coopers Bank Road.

The farm and mill predated 1780 and was located at the foot of Barrow Hill on the North side, off Coopers Bank Road.

The Staffordshire/Worcestershire (Dudley) border straddles the farm, and partly in the Pensnett parish.

There was extensive mining activity, with Old Park and Barrow Hill Collieries in close proximity.

An O/S maps between 1890 and 1910 suggests that it had a corn mill fed by a small watercourse in the valley, after the 1920s it was shown as disused.

Known locally as Hickin's Farm., after Mr. Hickin, one of the tennants during the 1950s.

White's Directory of 1835, lists Daniel Davis as Corn Miller.

Hunts Mill: Emanuel Fereday age 45 miller and farmer, with sons Edward and Thomas, and wife Lucy. [1841 census]. Mr. Fereday died October 8, 1856, aged 68 years.
The farming stock was sold off in 1862 and the Fereday family left.

Jeavon Hickman aged 34, 1881, farmer of 70 Acres employing 4 men and 2 boys. [1881 census]

Hickman quit the farm in 1910 after 38 years there.

Richard Turner was tennant here in 1916, he was also a butcher.

The buildings were demolished in 1986.

On the slopes between Coopers Bank Farm and Hunts Mill are remains of a medieval settlement, a Scheduled Monument which has great archaeological importance.

The farm and timber yard was located on the left-hand side of the Straits Road where it bends into Sandyfields Road.
The timber yard was removed and new houses built around 1962, the farm was demolished a few years later and more houses were added to the Straits Estate.

When part of the Himley Estate belonging to the Earl of Dudley was sold off in 1947, this property was included in the sale, it was said that the property had an area of 84½ acres and included five cottages.

Know as Major's Farm in it's later years, the proprietor, Major Jones was a well known local character with a popular riding stables.

In 1973 new houses were being built on the site of Straits Farm.

Cotwall End Road.
A late eighteenth century farm house, and buildings with grade II listing, situated in the Hamlet of Cotwall End.
Probably called Spout House because of the nearby springs.
It changed ownership in 1911, and Joseph Whitmore was the farmer until it was sold in 1943.

The house, barn and outbuildings have been tastefully restored into modern dwellings around 2002, much of the farm land is now a golf course.