It lies in a rural area on the A442 road, between Crudgington and Hodnet, with Ollerton immediately to the east.

At the time of the Domesday survey, the manor of Peplow was held by Ranulph de Mortimer.

The mill contains an early water turbine dating from 1820 and spans the River Tern.

There is a cricket club called Hodnet and Peplow CC, and the club's badge is that of a gold lion (from the gates of Hodnet Hall), lying beneath a green beech tree (representing the beech trees lining the driveway of Peplow Hall).

His grandson, Sir George Pigot Bt, sold the estate to the Clegg family.

[9] In 1877, work began on the Chapel of the Epiphany, with the building being designed by Richard Norman Shaw.