who wanted to improve the open, green spaces in their village. Some of their many projects have included the fund raising and construction of a Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) on the Twentyman's Playing Fields. They have also planted 1200 trees in a community wood called the Jubilee Wood which was planted to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Recently they formed a partnership with Vinci Construction and Jaguar Land Rover for a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) project which included the installation of a wheelchair access gate, seating benches and information boards in the wood. They host local businesses for volunteer days carrying out maintenance and improvement works in the wood. In an annual project with Bilbrook Codsall Scouts they construct bird nesting boxes, bat roosting boxes and insect hotels. The wood is now brimming with wildlife including: bank vole, field vole, common shrew, wood mouse, grass snake, barn owl, tawny owl, common kestrel, common kingfisher, noctule bat, soprano and common pipistrelle bat. Bordering the Jubilee Wood to the North East is the Moat Brook. The group regularly carry out water health monitoring activities and record all their results through Waterside Care and the Environment Agency. Notable people Richard Twentyman (1903 in Bilbrook – 1979) an English architect based in Wolverhampton. Jim Lea (born 1949) an English musician, most notable for playing bass guitar, keyboards, piano, violin, guitar, and singing backing vocals in Slade from their inception until 1992, brought up in Bilbrook, where his parents owned The Grange pub Listed building The parish contains one listed building, a milepost on the Shropshire Union Canal, designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". The milepost is in cast iron, and consists of a T-shaped plate divided into three panels inscribed with the distances to Nantwich, Autherley Junction, and Norbury Junction. References External links Bilbrook Village Website - History Page Bilbrook Junior FC Friends of Bilbrook - a non profit organization set up to improve the area South Staffordshire District Villages in Staffordshire