Minworth is close to the border of Warwickshire and is close to the village of Curdworth. The former village is now part of Birmingham though has Saxon origins. The name Minworth is thought to have come from Mynna's Farmstead which was established in the 6th or 7th centuries. In the Domesday Book the village was known as Meneworde. A mill ground corn on the river Tame in Minworth until 1872.
Minworth was a hamlet of Curdworth until becoming a parish of Castle Bromwich in 1894. In 1931 Minworth became part of Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield. Sewage works for Birmingham were built in Minworth, this remains Severn Trent's largest water treatment works. Next to the works, Birmingham & Fazeley Canal flows through Minworth.
