James Tucker in Cov

The next stop past Berkswell, towards Birmingham, is Hampton in Arden. Here you're very close to the Birmingham Airport, but Hampton seems a pretty small village still with a couple more shops than Berkswell, and a school and library. It's still very much a collection of older houses on the crest of a hill around the church and the village pub. Lower down, though, are some pretty grand Georgian or Victorian houses that look over the nearby farmland.
The church is a pretty straightforward Gothic renovation of an older Norman one, and an old ditch separates the graveyard from what seems to be an old manor house. I couldn't see much of it, but it was built up on one side by some huge stone retaining walls, and is apparently a large, half-timbered house, and with the church and the pub, takes up the very top of Hampton's hill.
On the marshy ground below Hampton is the medieval Packhorse Bridge, with the much more modern railway bridge in the background. There used to be a cross on the bridge, and on its stump has been carved the parish boundary between Hampton in Arden and Berkswell (the H/B to the right). The whole area now is part of a wetlands reserve, but if you duck under the railbridge, you'll find yourself in a field looking to Berkswell.

Berkswell's a tiny little village between Birmingham and Coventry, and can only be got to by taking a local train and then walking about a mile and a half along some pleasant country lanes. Or you could bike from Coventry, which would take well under an hour. Outside of Berkswell is Ram Hall, an old manor farm with an interesting chimney and a sideline in making sheep's cheese.
The village itself has one shop/postoffice/tea shop, one pub, and a church. About half the houses are hundreds of years old, and there is a farm on the main street, with cows staring at the pub diners across the road. The village green has a set of stocks with five leg-holes, supposedly built for the most regular offenders, who were a one-legged soldier and his two drinking companions.

The church really is the highlight of Berkswell, though. Built next to the eponymous well, which may have been used for baptisms, it was mainly built in the Norman period, though the very odd octagonal vault under the chancel apparently might indicate Saxon origins. In any case, it's had a long history of renovation and addition, with some windows and a tower from the Gothic period, a late-medieval gallery one one side, and a two-story porch outside the Norman door. The arches on one side are Gothic and on the other, Norman.