There is also a good deal of vegetation, such as trees and shrubbery lining the roads, some of the which also form part of the Leighton Hall estate, which is a red-brick building built in around 1778.

[6] The village has a public house, The Kynnersley Arms, a Grade II Listed Building which featured on Channel 4's Time Team programme in 2002, which revealed a furnace in its cellar used in the local iron industry;[7] its site has origins dating back 1,000 years including a corn mill dating back to the Domesday Book period.

On the south of the chancel arch is an heraldic device which were common around the 1800s, and this particular one was a memorial of the head of the manorial family.

[9] Inside the church are many memorials to the Leighton family including an effigy possibly dating from the 13th century.

Leighton Hall is a large Grade II listed manor house overlooking the River Severn and the Welsh hills from its south-facing gardens.

[16] Mary Webb, born at Leighton Lodge in 1881 and lived there before moving to Much Wenlock at age one,[5] was an English romantic novelist and poet of the early 20th century, who set all six of her novels in South Shropshire.