Location: Whisty (West Bromwich)

The northern part of the parish of All Saints, West Bromwich remained open country until the 20th century. Even in 1970 a few farms still existed in the area extending northwards from Sandwell.

At Hall Green stands the medieval manor-house. By the 13th century the area round it was known as Whisty. By at least the mid 16th century there was a house at Whisty which was evidently distinct from the manor-house; it was presumably the Whisty House at Hall Green which was stated in 1828 to have been recently demolished.

There was still a field called Big Whisty on the south side of Hall Green in the mid 19th century.

The modern suburb of Stone Cross on the Walsall Road east of Hall Green is named from a wayside cross which occurs in the early 17th century and still stood in the later 18th century; the base survived as part of a signpost until about 1897.

The name survives today with a Public House called the Stone Cross.