If so, the second part of the name comes from the Meole Brook, on which the settlement stands, and whose own name could come from Old English meolu ("meal, flour") on account of its putatively cloudy colour.

Alternatively, the name could come from the Common Brittonic words found today in modern Welsh as crug ("hillock") and moel ("bare").

[3][4]: 326 The Cambrian Line railway passes close to the village on its way from Shrewsbury to the west Wales coast.

John Wood Warter (1806-1878), antiquarian and cleric and editor of the works of Robert Southey, was born at Cruckmeole.

[5] Media related to Cruckmeole at Wikimedia Commons This Shropshire location article is a stub.