In 1870–72 John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Moreton Corbet thus: A village and a parish in Wem district, Salop.

[3] According to a 2001 census, the population of "Moreton Corbet and Lee Brockhurst" was 281: 149 males and 132 females[4] with the biggest age range occurring between 45- and 64-year-olds.

A depression in the ground in front of the gatehouse marks the line of where a ditch was, which would have been part of the castle's medieval defences.

He and subsequent owners aimed to preserve the fortified medieval frontage, suggesting that the Corbets wanted the building to maintain its characteristics as a castle.

It is carved with Sir Andrew's initials, SAC; the date 1579; and the Corbet family emblem of the elephant and castle.

[14] In the Civil War Sir Vincent Corbet (died 1656) fought for the Royalist cause and the house was damaged in recurrent fighting.

Holmyard managed to survive in the local woods for some time, eating whatever he could find, before venturing back out to Moreton Corbet.

On meeting Sir Vincent he cursed the Corbet family, claiming they would never live in the castle's halls or finish repairing the building.

There is a number of monumental chest tombs of members of the family, such as that of Sir Richard Corbet (died 1566) and his wife Margaret.

There are tablets to two Corbets who died in different wars; a large marble plaque on the west wall to Captain Robert Walter Corbet, 49th Regiment, who died of fever at Marseille in 1855 during the Crimean War, the epitaph quoting his recorded last words Homme propose - Dieu dispose ('Man proposes, God disposes'), and another on the south wall to Captain Sir Roland Corbet, 5th Baronet, Coldstream Guards, who was wounded in the Retreat from Mons and died in France in 1915, in World War I.

[19] There is a framed Roll of Honour listing 46 local men (including then Rector Edward Charles Pigot) who served in World War I, with indications of those killed, wounded or gassed in action or taken prisoner.

Around its base is Earl Haig's quotation: "By the long road they trod with so much faith and with such devoted and self-sacrificing bravery we have arrived at victory and to-day they have their reward.