[1] On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and portions merged with Shrewsbury, Condover and Great Hanwood.

Thereafter the name is usually attested in the plural, with thirteenth-century spellings including Meles, Moles, Meoles and Mueles.

[3] An Iron Age double ring ditch has been excavated at Meole Brace.

[4][5] Also at Meole Brace, an extensive roadside settlement along the line of the Roman military road connecting Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter) and Caersws was uncovered,[6] with evidence of trading of amphorae and mortaria.

[11] A social centre of the Meole village is the Peace Memorial Hall in Church Road, erected by the Meole Brace Literary and Debating Society and opened in 1922 to serve the community in honour of villagers who died and those who served in the First World War.

The course links the village to the nearby settlements of Reabrook and Sutton Park as well as Rea Brook Valley Nature Reserve.