The Warings were one of Tanworth's oldest families, and though now extinct, have left behind their name in Waring's Green, where they no doubt had their home. Unfortunately, they have left us little else, though Dugdale tells us that their Arms were in one of the windows of Tanworth Church in his day. They are no longer there, nor any other memorial to the family.

The first Waring we know much of is John, an influential man in the Parish in 1378 we find him again as witness to a document already quoted, in 1387. Later in the century, in 1395, we find "William Warynges" acting in the same capacity. The standing of the family is revealed by the next glimpse we get, which occurs in 1424, when Thomas Waring is styled armiger.

Richard Waring in 1448 was called upon to give evidence a lawsuit between Richard Archer, Esq., and two people named Porter. Ten years later, Alice Waring was Prioress of the nunnery at Henwood. Six times we find Warings of Tanworth among the members of the Guild of Knowle, between 1451 and 1535, two of who is are described as gent, and one as a carpenter.

A branch of the family had its seat at Old Berry Hall, Solihull, where we first encounter them in 1506. They continued here for several generations, inter-marrying with many of the principal families in the county, but, as at Tanworth, they have left no memorials to assist the local historian.

In Sir Robert Throckmorton's Survey of his Manor at Tanworth in 1571, we find the name of William Waring, gent, and with the advent of the Parish Registers in 1558, we meet the name more than that of any other for more than a century, when it begins to decrease. The first marriage recorded in the Registers is that of a Joan Waring. In 1674 Richard Waring, gent, is buried, this being the only occasion throughout the Registers that a Waring is so designated. They appear to have descended in the social scale, but the name continued down to 1863, when it seems to have finally disappeared. The last two of the name were a blacksmith and a labourer, which denotes a great fall from the days of the old "armigera."