History
Leofric, Earl of Mercia, gave the village of Burbage to Coventry Abbey in 1043. At that period it was valued at 2 shillings. Per period of the Domesday Book in 1086, its value had risen to £4. There were 1¼ hides of land (around 150 land or even 600,000 one thousand²) with 2 ploughs. Twenty villagers held ii smallholdings, sustaining deuce slaves & eight ploughs. Burbage as well experienced the hayfield, with measurements of the furlong in length and breadth (all about 40,500 1000²). the village besides owned timberland half a league by iv furlongs (Ii.Deuce klick²).

inside 1564 the diocesan is restored indicate a people of 57 families within Burbage & Six at Sketchley. Burbage, for numbers of centuries the little agricultural community, remained super thinly populated. In the nosecount of 1801 there were 1098 habitant. It was non until a twentieth century that a people exceeded 2000.

By 1953, a people experienced risen to 3,983, & by 1958 there were to a higher degree 5,000 on the electoral roll; this zoom was largely due to the expansion of Sketchley Hill housing estates.