At the time of the Domesday Survey in 1068, "Bereforde Mill" was valued at "2 shillings and 13 sticks of eels". It passed through the hands of Bordesley Abbey and the Ward family and was purchased by Francis, Earl of Warwick some time before 1760. John Beale a noted benefactor of the village in the 1670's was the miller and built the Old Mill House opposite. It was run by Oldhams, from 1845 to 1916. In the early twentieth century it had a turbine to generate electricity. In 1916 James Hemmings became miller, but the corn mill ceased working in 1924 having become unsafe. The Mill was demolished in the 1950s
